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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Gatekeeper" – "Two Inside".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the second secret plant developed to produce U-235?
(a) Roswell, New Mexico.
(b) Reno, Nevada.
(c) Hanford, Washington.
(d) Malvern, Indiana.

2. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 39.
(d) 33.

3. How old was Jens Poulsson when he was chosen as the leader of a special mission to attack the Vemork power plant?
(a) 24.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 29.

4. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?

2. When was Robert Oppenheimer born?

3. When General Groves first met with the Uranium Committee members in Chicago, how much uranium did they tell him it would take to make an atomic bomb?

4. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?

5. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?

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