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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who says,"The mission of this Allied force is fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7, 1945"?
(a) Douglas MacArthur.
(b) President Truman.
(c) George Marshall.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

4. In the 1940's, the Japanese scientists researching nuclear power for propulsion switch their research to what field?
(a) Sonar.
(b) Atomic bomb.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Radar.

5. Who says, "I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough, they stop fighting."
(a) President Truman.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) Paul W. Tibbets.
(d) Curtis LeMay.

6. What English innovation does the author consider to be the most valuable in the war?
(a) Particle accelerator.
(b) Heavy water.
(c) Cavity magnetron.
(d) Radar.

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

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

9. What is the primary target for the second atomic bomb?
(a) Osaka.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) Kyushu.
(d) Tokyo.

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

11. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1943.

12. In what state is the Hanford facility located?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Alaska.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Washington.

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

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

15. When does Klaus Fuchs come to Los Alamos?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?

2. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?

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

4. When is pure plutonium extracted for the first time?

5. Who is the first American scientist of administrative rank to visit Britain in 1941?

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