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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?
(a) October 1944.
(b) February 1945.
(c) June 1944.
(d) December 1944.

2. When is the explosion of the first Russian atomic bomb?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1946.

3. Where does Operation Forager take place?
(a) Europe.
(b) United States.
(c) Russia.
(d) The Pacific.

4. Who is Captain William S. Parsons?
(a) Designer of the plutonium gun.
(b) Test pilot.
(c) Commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor.
(d) Mathematician.

5. What indispensable item does Teller and his wife bring to Los Alamos?
(a) Grand piano.
(b) Lab books.
(c) Cycotron.
(d) His experimetnal data.

6. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?
(a) Kenneth Bainbridge.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Lyman Briggs.
(d) James Conant.

7. After Edward Teller becomes an American citizen and moves to Manhattan, his research involves what?
(a) Radar.
(b) A mass spectrometer.
(c) The hydrogen bomb.
(d) The atomic bomb.

8. Where is Site X located?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) California.
(d) Washington.

9. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) A British physicist.
(b) A Japanese diplomat.
(c) A Japanese physicist.
(d) An American nuclear physicist.

10. Who is Averell Harriman?
(a) U.S. representative to the United Nations.
(b) A physicist.
(c) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow.
(d) An Army General in the Pacific.

11. Where is the Trinity test site?
(a) Marshall Islands.
(b) Alamogordo, New Mexico.
(c) Nevada desert.
(d) Los Alamos, New Mexico.

12. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?
(a) Mark Oliphant.
(b) Henry Tizard.
(c) James Conant.
(d) Niels Bohr.

13. Who says, "Welcome to Los Alamos, and who the devil are you?"
(a) Groves.
(b) Chadwick.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Bohr.

14. When do the Germans surrender at Stalingrad?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1944.

15. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?
(a) Stimson.
(b) Bush.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Groves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Chief of Security for Groves?

2. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?

3. What is Alsos?

4. When does Enrico Fermi move to Los Alamos?

5. When do the Germans invade Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?

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