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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.
2. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?
(a) Richard Brennan.
(b) George Eltenton.
(c) Jens Poulsson.
(d) Alexander Sachs.
3. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Bristol.
(d) Zurich University.
4. What illness was responsible for Franklin Roosevelt's adult disability?
(a) Polio.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Tuberculosis.
5. How old was Robert Oppenheimer when he first voted in a presidential election?
(a) 26.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 36.
6. Where was Robert Oppenheimer born and raised?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Chicago, Illinois.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Los Angeles, California.
7. 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 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(b) Between 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(c) Between 100 and 150 pounds.
(d) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.
8. That former partner did Otto Hahn write first when he first discovered that uranium atoms could be split, according to the author in "The U Business"?
(a) Klaus Fuchs.
(b) Lise Meitner.
(c) Robert Oppenheimer.
(d) Lewis Strauss.
9. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) The University of Chicago.
10. How many neutrons are contained in the nucleus of a normal hydrogen atom?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.
11. When was Ruth Werner sent to Britain to set up a network of informants to the Soviet Union?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1942.
12. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?
(a) November 1, 1952.
(b) July 12, 1945.
(c) May 22, 1950.
(d) September 18, 1951.
13. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?
(a) Because its initial offices were in Manhattan.
(b) Because Manhattan was the name of the man who developed the bomb.
(c) Because the first atomic tests were to be performed in Manhattan.
(d) Because "Manhattan" was code for "bomb."
14. When did the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium hold its first meeting?
(a) October 21, 1939.
(b) May 22, 1940.
(c) October 11, 1939.
(d) September 1, 1939.
15. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Canada.
(d) The United States.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?
3. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?
4. Near what town was the Vemork power plant located?
5. Where had Knut Haukelid been fighting the Germans in a resistance movement when he was met by British officers in "International Gangster School"?
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