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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. What does Einstein’s work do for Bohr?
(a) Resolves his doubts
(b) Confuses him
(c) Confirms his theory
(d) Makes him question his work

2. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He assumed it was possible
(b) He went too fast
(c) He assumed it was impossible
(d) He tried as hard as possible to make it work

3. How did Bohr react to the discovery mentioned in question #82?
(a) He believed in it, but is now skeptical
(b) He still does not believe it
(c) He was unconditionally supportive
(d) He was skeptical, but now believes in it

4. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?
(a) He was in charge of German science
(b) He died
(c) He got divorced
(d) He came back to see Bohr

5. In what direction is Tisvilde?
(a) East
(b) North
(c) South
(d) West

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bohr work out complementarity?

2. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?

3. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?

4. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

5. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Einstein show about measurement?

2. How much more time did Heisenberg think he needed to make his reaction work?

3. What were the conditions under which Heisenberg was allowed to practice science after the war?

4. What extreme act does Heisenberg claim that Bohr would have been justified in doing?

5. What did people think about Heisenberg’s reaction to Schrödinger’s mechanics?

6. How did Heisenberg make revisions to his uncertainty paper?

7. What was strange about the cadmium that Heisenberg had in Haigerloch?

8. How was Einstein’s theory important to Heisenberg’s work?

9. How did Bohr react during the events of Christian’s death?

10. When did Fermi achieve the first self-sustaining chain reaction, in relationship to Heisenberg?

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