WorksheetsOppenheimer
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
During which war did the U.S. create the atomic bomb?
a)
World War I
b)
World War II
c)
Korean War
d)
Vietnam War
2.
During this time period, many of Germany's top scientists had fled the country because...
a)
they didn't like fascists.
b)
they were Jewish.
c)
they had brown hair.
3.
Which famous scientist wrote the letter alerting the U.S. President, FDR, about the German's discovery of nuclear fission?
a)
Marie Curie
b)
Albert Einstein
c)
Robert Oppenheimer
d)
Katherine Johnson
4.
In which U.S. state was the city of Los Alamos, which is where the physicists worked to create the atomic bomb?
a)
New Mexico
b)
Washington
c)
Pennsylvania
d)
Massachusetts
5.
Which European country had a "heavy water" factory Hitler planned to use to make the atomic bomb? This factory needed to be sabotaged by the Resistance forces.
a)
Sweden
b)
Germany
c)
Norway
d)
Denmark
6.
The leading physicist on the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, was from which American University?
a)
Stanford
b)
Harvard
c)
Penn State
d)
Berkeley
7.
The atomic engineers in this city needed to do the very dangerous job of sorting Uranium-235 from Uranium-238. Uranium-235 was used to make the first atomic bomb.
a)
Philadelphia, PA
b)
Houston, TX
c)
Oak Ridge, TN
d)
San Francisco, CA
8.
As the war was ending and the Allies split Germany into four parts, what were the American spies of the Alsos mission searching for to take or destroy?
a)
German physicists and labs
b)
German shepherds
c)
Swiss chocolate
d)
Soviet spies
9.
During the Manhattan Project, which city in the United States was known as the "Atomic City" due to its role in producing enriched uranium for the atomic bomb?
a)
Los Angeles, CA
b)
Chicago, IL
c)
Oak Ridge, TN
d)
Albuquerque, NM
10.
Who was the military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, overseeing the development of the atomic bomb?
a)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
b)
General Douglas MacArthur
c)
General Leslie Groves
d)
Admiral Chester Nimitz
11.
Which scientist was responsible for the theoretical calculations that determined the critical mass needed for the atomic bomb to achieve a sustained nuclear chain reaction?
a)
Enrico Fermi
b)
Niels Bohr
c)
Richard Feynman
d)
Edward Teller
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