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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. On what date did General Leslie Groves take command of the Manhattan Project?
(a) June 19, 1942.
(b) September 18, 1942.
(c) May 22, 1942.
(d) October 21, 1939.

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

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

4. How old was Colonel Leslie Groves when he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) 51.
(b) 39.
(c) 29.
(d) 46.

5. On what date was the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in the opening of "On the Cliff"?
(a) December 11, 1941.
(b) October 21, 1939.
(c) June 19, 1942.
(d) May 22, 1943.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?

2. Who was the Secretary of War that wrote to the school director of the Los Alamos Ranch School to inform him of its acquirement for military purposes?

3. In what year did Adolf Hitler annex Austria into his German Empire?

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

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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