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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. How did Haukelid injure himself during a training exercise before the special mission he was selected for, according to the author in "International Gangster School"?
(a) He shot himself in the foot.
(b) He almost drowned in a river.
(c) He broke his arm climbing a fence.
(d) He shot himself in the arm.

2. Who was the British Colonel that relayed Poulsson's mission regarding the Vemork power plant?
(a) Colonel John Wilson.
(b) Colonel Brehon Somervell.
(c) Colonel Richard Brennan.
(d) Colonel Scott Miller.

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

4. 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?
(a) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(c) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(d) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Robert Oppenheimer graduate from Harvard University?

2. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?

3. On what date did General Groves first meet Robert Oppenheimer?

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

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

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