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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reaction Begins" – "Epilogue".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Japan's foreign minister in August of 1945?
(a) Yoshio Nishina.
(b) Shigenori Togo.
(c) Seizo Arisue.
(d) Korechika Anami.

2. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Santa Maria.
(b) Fat Man.
(c) U-2.
(d) Little Boy.

3. When did Klaus Fuchs sail for America to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) August, 1942.
(b) July, 1943.
(c) November, 1943.
(d) September, 1944.

4. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1929.

5. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's date whom the author describes him abandoning in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) Ruth Werner.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Melba Phillips.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?

3. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?

4. At what hotel did Dorothy McKibben meet her potential employer to interview for a confidential job in March of 1943?

5. What was Poulsson's answer to the pre-arranged security question, "What did you see walking down the Strand in the early hours of January 1, 1941?"

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