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

2. Why was the Manhattan Project given this code name?
(a) Because the first atomic tests were to be performed in Manhattan.
(b) Because its initial offices were in Manhattan.
(c) Because Manhattan was the name of the man who developed the bomb.
(d) Because "Manhattan" was code for "bomb."

3. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Wisconsin.
(d) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

4. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Newark.
(d) Jersey City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Richard Feynman studying when he joined the Los Alamos project?

2. In what year did the FBI open a file on Robert Oppenheimer?

3. Where did Haukelid's training group go to attend parachute school?

4. How many years of evidence was Harry Gold racing to destroy in the Prologue?

5. From where did Poulsson's team order skis and boots prior to their mission at the Vemork power plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Robert Oppenheimer’s interest and involvement in politics?

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

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

4. Who was Lise Meitner and what role did she play in the discovery of nuclear fission?

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

6. How did Colonel Groves respond when his candidate for the leader of the Manhattan Project did not pass an army physical?

7. What was the situation with the Vemork plant in February of 1943?

8. How is Robert Oppenheimer characterized as a professor in “Skinny Superhero”?

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

10. Describe Otto Hahn’s experiment in December of 1938. What was discovered in Hahn’s experiment?

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