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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the elder of the scientists?
(a) It is unclear
(b) They are the same age
(c) Heisenberg
(d) Bohr

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

4. How does Margrethe claim that Bohr reacted to Heisenberg?
(a) Angrily
(b) With ignorance
(c) With confusion
(d) Calmly

5. When was the last time Heisenberg had seen the Bohrs?
(a) Nobody remembers
(b) Four years earlier
(c) Two years earlier
(d) Ten years earlier

Short Answer Questions

1. What uranium isotope is most common?

2. What excuse does Bohr make for Heisenberg regarding this first stop?

3. Where did Bohr have his most important insight, according to Heisenberg?

4. What is the main barrier between Heisenberg and Bohr at the beginning of the former’s visit?

5. What is fired in fission?

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