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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is protecting the Bohrs, according to Heisenberg?
(a) The German Embassy
(b) The English
(c) The Americans
(d) The Danes

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

3. How does Heisenberg suggest Bohr might have killed him?
(a) By strangling him
(b) By giving him up to the SS
(c) With a mine
(d) With a cap pistol

4. Why does Bohr think Heisenberg’s visit might be apolitical?
(a) Their work is only in theoretical physics
(b) They have different political views
(c) Bohr is a Dane and Heisenberg is a German
(d) Scientists don’t care about politics

5. How does Margrethe insult Heisenberg when he first arrives?
(a) She jokes about his wife
(b) She tells him he looks older
(c) She tells him to leave
(d) She disdains German science

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Heisenberg currently teaching?

2. Given Bohr’s conception of their work, what does Margrethe thus claim that Heisenberg can’t see?

3. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?

4. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?

5. What area is Bohr the acknowledged expert in?

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