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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 Semyon Semyonov earn an engineering degree?
(a) The University of New York.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of California, Berkeley.
(d) Harvard University.

2. When did Adolf Hitler take over as Chancellor of Germany?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who informed Robert Oppenheimer about the German chemists finding the uranium could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?

2. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

3. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?

4. Where were Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard both born?

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

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