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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month did the 1914 meeting actually take place?
(a) October
(b) September
(c) November
(d) December

2. What fallacious claim did Bohr initially make about fission?
(a) It cannot be used to produce weapons
(b) Cadmium is unnecessary
(c) The Americans must master it
(d) Germany will never understand it

3. What segment of the population, important to Heisenberg and Bohr, has fled Germany because of the Nazis?
(a) Conscientious objectors
(b) Jewish writers
(c) Jewish scientists
(d) Apolitical scientists

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

5. How long did Bohr estimate it would take to produce one gram of U-235?
(a) They could do it instantly
(b) Ten years
(c) A century
(d) 26,000 years

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Heisenberg not in touch with the English physicists?

2. How old are the characters during the play?

3. How old was Ernest when Heisenberg arrived?

4. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?

5. How was the Gestapo monitoring Heisenberg?

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