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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Other than Leipzig, where else might Heisenberg have gone?
(a) The University of Copenhagen
(b) The Sorbonne or ENS in Paris
(c) Columbia University or the University of Chicago
(d) Oxford or Cambridge

2. How does Heisenberg characterize their current situation?
(a) Impossibly difficult
(b) Challenging
(c) Mildly uncomfortable
(d) Irrational

3. Why is Margrethe afraid of Heisenberg’s visit?
(a) She thinks they will look like collaborators
(b) She is afraid he will reveal a secret
(c) She is afraid he will turn them in to the Nazi party
(d) She does not know what he will say to Bohr

4. What explanation does Bohr give for the number of Heisenberg’s coveted object in Germany?
(a) German publications are printing less work
(b) German funding has been cut
(c) The Jewish scientists have fled the country
(d) The birthrate goes down during wartime

5. Why does Bohr think that scientists are still working on fission?
(a) There is magic in it
(b) He does not think that they are working on it
(c) His early work was erroneous
(d) There is a lot left to be discovered

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margrethe fear is the inspiration behind Heisenberg’s visit?

2. What segment of the population, important to Heisenberg and Bohr, has fled Germany because of the Nazis?

3. How does Bohr claim he reacted to Heisenberg?

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

5. Why does Bohr refuse Heisenberg’s invitation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role did Bohr play in the atomic project?

2. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

3. What role does Heisenberg think Bohr could have played, but didn’t, in the atomic project?

4. What is the German Cultural Institute?

5. Why does Bohr say that he is a mathematically curious entity?

6. What is the tone of Bohr’s joke about skiing?

7. What were Kramers’ main personality traits, as the play describes them?

8. What is the major conflict over what Heisenberg said to Bohr?

9. What was Jensen’s claim about Heisenberg’s visit?

10. What does Heisenberg claim are the political implications of what he was saying to Bohr?

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