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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Heisenberg’s theory need in order to work?
(a) The Schrödinger wave function
(b) A cadmium rod
(c) Help from Bohr
(d) Work done by Kramers

2. What does one need to fission the least common uranium isotope?
(a) Fast neutrons
(b) Regular neutrons
(c) Regular protons
(d) Fast protons

3. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
(a) Uncertainty
(b) Complementarity
(c) Wave mechanics
(d) Schrödinger’s cat

4. What uranium isotope is least common?
(a) U-235
(b) U-238
(c) U-2.
(d) U-17

5. Who accompanied Heisenberg on his 1947 trip to Copenhagen?
(a) A Gestapo officer
(b) His wife
(c) His son
(d) A British intelligence minder

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bohr compare his partnership with Heisenberg to?

2. How old are the characters during the play?

3. How do Bohr and Heisenberg greet each other?

4. What is fired at in fission?

5. What do the men do at the end of the play?

(see the answer key)

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