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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What inspired the Nazi’s nickname for Heisenberg?
(a) His loyalty to their cause
(b) His interest in atomic physics
(c) His mistaken calculations
(d) His interest in theoretical physics

2. What does Bohr initially think about Margrethe’s proposed activity?
(a) He finds the suggestion upsetting
(b) He will see what Heisenberg thinks
(c) He is receptive to it
(d) He doesn’t think they will do it

3. What does fission produce BEFORE the final product?
(a) Plutonium
(b) Uranium
(c) Mercury
(d) Neptunium

4. How does Heisenberg react to Margrethe during the visit depicted in Act 1?
(a) Indifferently
(b) Happily
(c) Angrily
(d) With annoyance

5. What is fired at in fission?
(a) Plutonium
(b) Cadmium
(c) Carbon
(d) Uranium

Short Answer Questions

1. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?

2. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?

3. With whom did Bohr work that Heisenberg did not?

4. What did the scientists who made the bomb discover about the chain reaction?

5. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?

(see the answer key)

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