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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?
(a) Its importance
(b) Its collaborative aspects
(c) Its timing
(d) Its mechanics
2. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?
(a) 26,000 tons
(b) One ton
(c) Fifty kilograms
(d) One gram
3. What does Heisenberg hesitate to accept scientifically?
(a) The uncertainty principle
(b) Bohr’s theories of the atom
(c) Schrödinger’s wave mechanics
(d) Kramer’s theories of fission
4. What uranium isotope is least common?
(a) U-238
(b) U-235
(c) U-17
(d) U-2.
5. What does Bohr claim about Heisenberg’s attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He went too slow
(b) He went too fast
(c) He never calculated anything
(d) He never assumed anything
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Margrethe claim that Bohr reacted to Heisenberg?
2. How does Heisenberg react to Margrethe during the visit depicted in Act 1?
3. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?
4. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?
5. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is an electron?
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