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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "On the Cliff" – "High Concentration".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Franklin Roosevelt's family home?
(a) Oxford, Mississippi.
(b) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(c) Passaic, New Jersey.
(d) Hyde Park, New York.

2. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) October 11, 1939.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) May 22, 1940.
(d) September 1, 1939.

3. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
(a) Princeton, New Jersey.
(b) New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(c) Peconic, New York.
(d) New Paltz, New York.

4. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Richard Brennan.
(b) Jens Poulsson.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) George Eltenton.

5. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?
(a) The Republican Party.
(b) The Labor Party.
(c) The Communist Party.
(d) The Democratic Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does S.O.E. stand for?

2. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?

3. Where was Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?

4. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?

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