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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Bohr and Heisenberg greet each other?
(a) Indifferently
(b) Pleasantly
(c) Angrily
(d) Awkwardly

2. To what does Bohr compare fission?
(a) Alchemy
(b) Magic
(c) Cooking
(d) An hourglass

3. How does Heisenberg characterize their current situation?
(a) Challenging
(b) Irrational
(c) Mildly uncomfortable
(d) Impossibly difficult

4. What did Bohr agree not to talk about before Heisenberg arrived?
(a) Margrethe
(b) Politics
(c) Personal matters
(d) Science

5. Where is Heisenberg currently working?
(a) Leipzig
(b) Copenhagen
(c) Berlin
(d) Munich

Short Answer Questions

1. What segment of the population, important to Heisenberg and Bohr, has fled Germany because of the Nazis?

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

3. What did Schrödinger’s animal have with it?

4. Who accompanied Heisenberg on his 1947 trip to Copenhagen?

5. What is the first thing that Heisenberg thinks he will remain famous for?

(see the answer key)

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