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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the nickname Dogpatch refer?

2. Who writes "Twentieth Century Book of the Dead"?

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

4. When does the first B-29 arrive in the Marianas on Saipan?

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

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