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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?
(a) The Crosby Theatre.
(b) The Castillo Street Bridge.
(c) The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art.
(d) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

2. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Canada.
(c) Norway.
(d) Scotland.

3. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?
(a) 1 out of 130.
(b) 1 out of 300.
(c) 1 out of 50.
(d) 1 out of 10.

4. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?
(a) P.O. Box 212, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(b) P.O. Box 313, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(c) P.O. Box 1663, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
(d) P.O. Box 0, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

5. What ship carried the uranium for its trip to Tinian?
(a) The USS Indianapolis.
(b) The USS Pittsburgh.
(c) The USS Cleveland.
(d) The USS Manhattan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?

2. Who convinced Richard Feynman to join in the Los Alamos project?

3. Who told Oppenheimer after his visit to San Francisco in June of 1943, "In the future, please avoid seeing your questionable friends"?

4. What was Moe Berg's profession prior to his work for the OSS in World War II?

5. Who delivered Albert Einstein's letter regarding the potential development of a German atomic bomb to the President of the United States?

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