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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?
(a) His work on the atom with Bohr
(b) His uncertainty paper
(c) A series of mathematical proofs
(d) His wave theorem

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

3. Why does Bohr think that scientists are still working on fission?
(a) He does not think that they are working on it
(b) There is a lot left to be discovered
(c) His early work was erroneous
(d) There is magic in it

4. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?
(a) Heisenberg
(b) Margrethe
(c) A team of researchers
(d) Nobody

5. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?
(a) Schrödinger
(b) Margrethe
(c) Nobody ever did
(d) Pauli

Short Answer Questions

1. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?

2. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?

3. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?

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

5. How does Margrethe claim that Bohr reacted to Heisenberg?

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