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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who were the FBI agents at Harry Gold's door in the Prologue to Bomb?
(a) James Wilson and Peter Martin.
(b) Scott Miller and Richard Brennan.
(c) Ted Hall and Lewis Strauss.
(d) Derek Curtis-Bennett and Paul Sachs.

3. Who was the U.S. President in July of 1939?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Harry Truman.

4. When did Robert Oppenheimer abandon his date in a car, according to the author in "Skinny Superhero"?
(a) February, 1934.
(b) September, 1933.
(c) July, 1941.
(d) March, 1932.

5. What was the actual name of the training school nicknamed by the Germans as the "International Gangster School"?
(a) Special Training School No. 3.
(b) MI-5.
(c) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(d) Werner Underground Training Facility.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who did Peter Ivanov send to talk to Robert Oppenheimer and feel out his Communist sensibilities at Berkeley?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the compound at Los Alamos developed? Who came to the compound?

2. What happened when the FBI searched Harry Gold’s room in the Prologue to Bomb?

3. What was the outcome of Haukelid and Poulsson’s mission in February of 1943?

4. Who was chosen to be the scientific leader of the Manhattan Project in 1942? What reservations were expressed regarding this individual?

5. How does the author describe surveillance of Communists in the U.S. in “Rapid Rupture”?

6. What was the name of the mission Haukelid and Poulsson set out on in February of 1943? How did they go about the mission?

7. How is Knut Haukelid described in the narrative? Where was he trained?

8. What was the first mission that Haukelid and Poulsson were assigned after training?

9. How would you describe Robert Oppenheimer’s loyalty to the U.S. in his work for the Manhattan Project?

10. What agreement was made between the U.S. President and British Prime Minister on June 19, 1942?

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