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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Heisenberg refer to Weizsacker?
(a) Your friend
(b) Your enemy
(c) Our friend
(d) Our enemy

2. How old is Heisenberg during the trip to Copenhagen in Act 1?
(a) Almost fifty
(b) In his early twenties
(c) Almost thirty
(d) Almost forty

3. To what does Bohr compare fission?
(a) Cooking
(b) Magic
(c) Alchemy
(d) An hourglass

4. At the beginning of the play, who is visiting whom?
(a) Bohr is visiting Heisenberg
(b) Heisenberg is visiting Bohr
(c) Margrethe is visiting Bohr
(d) Bohr is visiting Margrethe

5. What did Bohr do in the game of cards that Heisenberg recalls?
(a) He folded
(b) He won with a straight
(c) He intentionally bluffed
(d) He won with a fake straight

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Heisenberg currently working?

2. How old are the characters during the play?

3. What does one need to fission the most common uranium isotope?

4. What did Schrödinger’s animal have with it?

5. Who is the elder of the scientists?

(see the answer key)

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