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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tokutaro Hagiwara?
(a) A British physicist.
(b) An American nuclear physicist.
(c) A Japanese diplomat.
(d) A Japanese physicist.

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

3. 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) President Truman.
(d) George Marshall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the explosion of the first Russian atomic bomb?

2. 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."

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

4. When does Enrico Fermi move to Los Alamos?

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

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