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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. Near what town was the Vemork power plant located?
(a) Haugesund, Norway.
(b) Rjukan, Norway.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Grimstad, Norway.

2. Where did Klaus Fuchs earn his PhD?
(a) Zurich University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Bristol.
(d) The University of California, Berkeley.

3. What does S.O.E. stand for?
(a) Selective Operations Establishment.
(b) Special Operations Executive.
(c) Special Ordinance Elective.
(d) Secret Operations Entity.

4. Where was Donald Hornig studying chemistry when he was offered a confidential job by his lab instructor?
(a) The University of California, Berkeley.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) The University of Chicago.

5. 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 500 and 1,000 pounds.
(b) Between 1,000 and 2,000 pounds.
(c) Between 10 and 1,000 pounds.
(d) Between 100 and 150 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political party did Tom Black pressure Harry Gold to join?

2. Where did Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard find Albert Einstein in "Finding Einstein"?

3. Where did Robert Oppenheimer work as a theoretical physicist and professor of physics in the 1930s?

4. Where did Harry Gold travel to deliver the lab information to Soviet spies, according to the author in "Tradecraft"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who were Zalmond Franklin and Clarence Hiskey and how did they contribute to Soviet espionage?

4. How are Robert Oppenheimer’s childhood and education described in “Skinny Superhero”?

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

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

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

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

9. What led the Soviets to believe that the United States was making progress toward atomic weaponry, according to the author in “Enormoz”?

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

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