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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?
(a) Berkeley.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Alamos.
(d) Manhattan.

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

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

4. When does Niels Bohr escape from Stockholm to Scotland?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1943.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the pilot of the plane that drops the first atomic bomb?

3. Who replaces Oppenheimer as director at Los Alamos?

4. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

5. Who drafts the historic directive releasing the atomic bomb for use?

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