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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Skinny Superhero" – "Enormoz".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Harry Gold live when he was questioned by the FBI in the Prologue?
(a) San Diego, California.
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) New York, New York.

2. How old was Harry Gold when World War II began?
(a) 28.
(b) 19.
(c) 26.
(d) 32.

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

4. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

5. Who was Semyon Semyonov's KGB colleague that helped work with him to throw off the scent of the FBI, according to the author in "Rapid Rupture"?
(a) Alexander Feklisov.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Alexander Sachs.
(d) Luis Alvarez.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?

2. What does "blitzkrieg" translate to in English?

3. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?

4. Where did Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?

5. When did Adolf Hitler launch a four-million man invasion across the Soviet border, despite his agreements not to do so?

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