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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Leo Sziland.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer.

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

5. When does the U.S. learn that Klaus Fuchs is a Russian spy?
(a) February 1950.
(b) March 1955.
(c) December 1945.
(d) January 1948.

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

7. Who drafts the historic directive releasing the atomic bomb for use?
(a) Groves.
(b) Byrnes.
(c) Tibbets.
(d) Truman.

8. Who is assigned to find the Trinity test site?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Bainbridge.
(c) Szilard.
(d) Byrnes.

9. When do the Germans announce Hitler's suicide?
(a) May 1, 1945.
(b) May 20, 1945.
(c) April 30, 1945.
(d) Mary 7, 1945.

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

11. The day after Nagasaki is bombed, where does Ernest Lawrence go?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Japan.
(c) Washington, DC.
(d) New Mexico.

12. Who comes up with the technical term "pile" or atomic pile?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Szilard.
(c) Teller.
(d) Fermi.

13. Where does Emilio Segre conduct his experiments on the rate of fission in uranium and plutonium?
(a) Oak Ridge.
(b) Los Alamos.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Hanford.

14. In 1939, where is the only heavy water plant located?
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) Norway.
(d) United States.

15. When do the Germans invade Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg?
(a) February, 1940.
(b) May, 1940.
(c) June, 1939.
(d) January, 1939.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the home base for the Air Force group that is training for the delivery of the atomic bombs?

3. What is the NDRC?

4. What indispensable item does Teller and his wife bring to Los Alamos?

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

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