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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invited William Laurence to attend the test shot of the plutonium bomb?

2. What was the site named where the plutonium bomb would be tested for the Manhattan Project?

3. What location in Santa Fe did Klaus Fuchs choose for future meetings with Harry Gold in 1945?

4. What was the population of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1943?

5. Who was the Army Counter-Intelligence officer that questioned Paul Tibbets before he met with General Uzal Ent in the summer of 1944?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the objective of the Alsos mission with Heisenberg?

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

3. How is the death of President Franklin Roosevelt described in “Falling Stars”?

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

5. Who was Theodore Hall? How did Hall become involved in the Manhattan Project?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What led Klaus Fuchs to inform to the Soviets during World War II? Where was Fuchs born? What were his political views? What happened to Fuchs after the war ended?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the development of the world’s first atomic weapon from its origin in Otto Hahn’s discovery of nuclear fission. What experiment did Hahn conduct? How did this experiment lead up to “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of Enrico Fermi’s Chicago Pile-1. What were the objectives of Fermi’s experiment? What were the results? How did these results contribute to the Manhattan Project?

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