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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bohr claim about Heisenberg’s attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He went too slow
(b) He went too fast
(c) He never calculated anything
(d) He never assumed anything

2. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?
(a) The quark
(b) The proton
(c) The atom
(d) The electron

3. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is an electron?
(a) A buoy
(b) Blood
(c) Bohr
(d) Margrethe

4. What is Heisenberg’s justification for staying in Germany?
(a) He agrees with the Nazi cause
(b) He wants to rebuild German science after the war
(c) The German scientists are breaking new ground
(d) He wants to be close to Bohr

5. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
(a) Wave mechanics
(b) Schrödinger’s cat
(c) Complementarity
(d) Uncertainty

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?

2. What was unique about the game of cards that Heisenberg recalls?

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

4. What does Heisenberg respond to Bohr’s claim in question #155?

5. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?

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