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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who informed Colonel Leslie Groves that he was selected for an important assignment in developing the atomic bomb?
(a) General Lewis Strauss.
(b) General Scott Miller.
(c) General Richard Brennan.
(d) General Brehon Somervell.

2. What did Saville Sax use for invisible ink in his notes for the Soviets?
(a) Sulphuric acid.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Milk.
(d) Honey.

3. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) MI-5.
(b) Werner Underground Training Facility.
(c) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(d) Special Training School No. 3.

4. Who offered Dorothy McKibben a secretarial job in March of 1943?
(a) Bob Wilson.
(b) George Eltenton.
(c) Joe Stevenson.
(d) Henry Stimson.

5. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?
(a) December 18, 1944.
(b) October 8, 1943.
(c) June 19, 1944.
(d) February 21, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?

2. Whose idea was it initially for the Americans to kidnap Werner Heisenberg?

3. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?

4. How many people were aboard the ferry as it transported heavy water from the Vemork plant?

5. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?

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