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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is with Heisenberg when he has his moment of clarity?
(a) Nobody
(b) A team of researchers
(c) Margrethe
(d) Bohr

2. How was the Gestapo monitoring Heisenberg?
(a) They weren’t
(b) With microphones
(c) With spies
(d) With aerial surveillance

3. What is the official reason for Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
(a) He is shopping for a cyclotron
(b) He has come to see Bohr
(c) A lecture about fission
(d) An astrophysics lecture

4. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He assumed it was impossible
(b) He tried as hard as possible to make it work
(c) He assumed it was possible
(d) He went too fast

5. How old is Heisenberg during the trip to Copenhagen in Act 1?
(a) In his early twenties
(b) Almost fifty
(c) Almost forty
(d) Almost thirty

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why are the consequences for Germany of Bohr’s explanation for the number of Heisenerg’s coveted object in Germany?

4. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?

5. When did Bohr make his first big discovery?

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