What is your Spy-Q?

In "Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War", author Michael J. Sulick outlines the motives that drive spies to commit espionage: money, ego, revenge, romance, thrills, ideological sympathy and dual loyalties.

Think you know everything there is to know about spying through out American history? Take this fun and challenging test to find out your Spy-Q - your spy quotient!

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  1. Paul Revere, chief of the amateur intelligence service in pre-revolutionary Boston, was chosen as a spy because:
  2. The nation’s first counterintelligence service, established by the New York Congress at the suggestion of George Washington, was called the:
  3. Benjamin Church, the first major spy against America, was discovered after:
  4. Benedict Arnold was:
  5. In order to collect funds for clandestine intelligence activities, George Washington established, among his first acts as president, the:
  6. During the Civil War, the Union created two rival counterspy organizations, led respectively by:
  7. Spies during the Civil War, included:
  8. Before the US entered World War I, a German espionage effort in the United States was thwarted when:
  9. The schemes of Gustav Rumrich, a US-born spy of Austrian descent spying for the Nazis, included:
  10. Elizabeth Bentley, the “Red Spy Queen” was:
  11. Laughlin Currie, a Soviet spy who worked inside the White House administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was never convicted of spying, although eventually:
  12. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for providing the Soviets with a small but important piece of the atomic bomb program, while:

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