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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the Gestapo monitoring Heisenberg?
(a) They weren’t
(b) With spies
(c) With microphones
(d) With aerial surveillance

2. What did people pay attention to instead of Heisenberg’s discoveries?
(a) Bohr
(b) Schrödinger
(c) Pauli
(d) Oppenheimer

3. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?
(a) To teach in Germany
(b) Heisenberg fell in love
(c) Heisenberg no longer respected Bohr’s intelligence
(d) They had an argument

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

5. Why is Heisenberg envious of Bohr?
(a) Bohr has an article about to be published
(b) Bohr has many children
(c) Bohr has access to a cyclotron
(d) Bohr has his own institute

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the elder of the scientists?

2. Where did Bohr work out complementarity?

3. How has Bohr been treated by the occupying Germans?

4. What is Heisenberg currently teaching?

5. What did Heisenberg not understand when he had his moment of clarity?

(see the answer key)

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