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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 was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) Laboratory Number 2.
(c) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(d) Special Training School No. 3.

2. What aircraft was Paul Tibbets helping the U.S. develop as a test pilot in the summer of 1944?
(a) The B-29 bomber.
(b) The A-36 Apache.
(c) The Grumman Goblin.
(d) The Hawker Demon.

3. What physicist was the scientific head of the Alsos mission?
(a) Jens Poulsson.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Robert Serber.
(d) Samuel Goudsmit.

4. Whom did Oppenheimer ask to spread a rumor about "electric rockets" in Santa Fe to distract from the reality of what was happening at Los Alamos?
(a) Joe and Sarah Stevenson.
(b) Robert and Charlotte Serber.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Alexander Sachs.

5. When did Franklin D. Roosevelt die?
(a) April 12, 1945.
(b) September 1, 1945.
(c) December 18, 1944.
(d) February 21, 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who flipped the switch that armed the plutonium bomb for testing in July of 1945?

2. About how many uranium atoms have a total of 235 protons and neutrons?

3. How old was Igor Kurchatov when he was put in charge of building a Soviet atomic weapon?

4. What does the Army's "CIC" refer to?

5. Who was Stalin's head of secret police in late 1944?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Colonel Carl Eifler respond to his mission regarding Heisenberg?

2. How did the residents in the surrounding areas of Los Alamos react to the project there when it began?

3. What information was passed to the KGB via Ted Hall and Saville Sax in December of 1944?

4. How did the United States government respond to questions regarding the blast from the Trinity Test?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What conflict arose regarding Jean Tatlock between Groves and the Army CIC?

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