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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?
(a) The new cyclotron.
(b) The megatron accelerator.
(c) The anticipated hydrogen bomb.
(d) The anticipated atomic bomb.

2. Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
(a) Grove.
(b) Marshall.
(c) Tibbets.
(d) LeMay.

3. When does the Oak Ridge pilot reactor reach critical mass?
(a) January 1943.
(b) June 1943.
(c) January 1944.
(d) November 1943.

4. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?
(a) Nevada.
(b) California.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Utah.

5. What is Operation Barbarossa?
(a) A secret Russian physics laboratory.
(b) Germany's invasion of Russia.
(c) A secret Norwegian project to build the atomic bomb.
(d) England's plans to invade Germany.

6. When does Russia begin work on its atomic bomb project?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1940.

7. Who is the Chief of Security for Groves?
(a) John Landsdale.
(b) Howard von Alben.
(c) John Robinson.
(d) Edward Jacobs.

8. What is the name of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?
(a) Little Boy.
(b) Silverplate.
(c) Enola Gay.
(d) Mike.

9. Who destroys the Norwegian heavy-water installation in February 1943?
(a) Russians.
(b) French.
(c) Americans.
(d) British.

10. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?
(a) Los Alamos.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Oak Ridge facility.
(d) Hanford facility.

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

12. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?
(a) H.G.Wells.
(b) Gil Elliot.
(c) Richard Rhodes.
(d) Norman Scott.

13. What is Alsos?
(a) The American League for Southern Officers.
(b) A security unit established by Groves.
(c) A nickname for Los Alamos.
(d) The American League Sons of Soldiers.

14. Who directs the physics department at the University of Birmingham, England, in 1939?
(a) Henry Tizard.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Mark Oliphant.
(d) Otto Frisch.

15. What company provides contracted employees to operate the Oak Ridge facility?
(a) Eastman Kodak.
(b) Boeing.
(c) IBM.
(d) DuPont.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?

2. What is the NDRC?

3. When does President Roosevelt die?

4. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?

5. Who is the Secretary of War in 1942?

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