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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. What mailing address did Dorothy McKibben give to the new scientists arriving in Santa Fe for the bomb project?

2. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?

3. How old was Paul Tibbets in the summer of 1944?

4. Who was Robert Oppenheimer's assistant leading the first meeting at the Los Alamos Ranch School?

5. On what date did Moe Berg attend Werner Heisenberg's lecture for the Alsos mission?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was Dorothy McKibben? How did she gain employment on the Manhattan Project?

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

7. How did the name “The Gadget” arise?

8. What was Dorothy McKibben’s job description at Los Alamos? What were her duties?

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

10. With whom was Carl Eifler replaced in the mission regarding Heisenberg? Why was he replaced?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. How many structures were damaged as a result of the blast? How many people were killed, both immediately and as a result of radiation poisoning? What impact did this attack have on the public’s perception of atomic weapons?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Richard Feynman’s role with the Manhattan Project. Why was Feynman considered a troublemaker? What assignment was he given in Oak Ridge, Tennessee? How did he go about fulfilling his objective?

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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