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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. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?
(a) Wendover, Utah.
(b) Malvern, Nebraska.
(c) Juneau, Alaska.
(d) Los Alamos, New Mexico.

2. On what date did Adolf Hitler commit suicide?
(a) March 13, 1945.
(b) April 30, 1945.
(c) April 12, 1945.
(d) September 1, 1945.

3. How far was Oppeneheimer's bomb shelter from the blast site for the testing of the plutonium bomb?
(a) 20 miles away.
(b) 2 miles away.
(c) 6 miles away.
(d) 10 miles away.

4. On what date did Harry Gold arrive in Santa Fe to meet with Klaus Fuchs?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) June 2, 1945.
(c) February 21, 1945.
(d) July 12, 1945.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?

2. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?

3. To where did Knut Haukelid take a train following the bombing of the ferry carrying heavy water from the Vemork plant?

4. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?

5. Who was the leader of Hitler's bomb project during WWII?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the results of the Trinity Test described in the narrative?

2. What questions did Harry Truman pose regarding the Manhattan Project in 1945?

3. Who was William Laurence? Why was he in attendance at the Trinity Test?

4. How and why did the plot to kidnap Werner Heisenberg arise?

5. What was Richard Feynman’s mission in Oak Ridge, Tennessee?

6. Why was Colonel Paul Tibbets ordered to report to Colorado Springs in the summer of 1944?

7. What did Oppenheimer expect to happen to the Manhattan Project after Germany’s surrender? Was he correct?

8. How were the water barrels being transported from the Vemork plant in February of 1944? What was Haukelid’s mission?

9. What preparations were made prior to the testing of the first nuclear weapon?

10. How did the Alsos mission evolve after Nazi Germany’s surrender?

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