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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Bohr’s son who features most prominently in the play?
(a) Sven
(b) Wilhelm
(c) Christian
(d) Niels

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

5. How many of the object of Heisenberg’s envy exist in Germany?
(a) More than thirty
(b) None
(c) One
(d) Thousands

6. Why does Bohr refuse Heisenberg’s invitation?
(a) He is partially Jewish
(b) He has recently been there
(c) He is furious with Heisenberg
(d) He has used all of his vacation time

7. What is Heisenberg’s justification for staying in Germany?
(a) The German scientists are breaking new ground
(b) He wants to rebuild German science after the war
(c) He agrees with the Nazi cause
(d) He wants to be close to Bohr

8. How does Margrethe refer to Weizsacker?
(a) Your enemy
(b) Your friend
(c) Our friend
(d) Our enemy

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

10. What does fission produce BEFORE the final product?
(a) Mercury
(b) Neptunium
(c) Plutonium
(d) Uranium

11. What would the consequences be for Heisenberg if his government knew what he was doing in Copenhagen?
(a) He would be put on trial
(b) There wouldn’t be any
(c) He would be shot
(d) He would be forbidden to travel

12. What does Heisenberg imply Weizsacker might have told Bohr?
(a) He must hide his work from Margrethe
(b) He needs to flee Denmark
(c) Heisenberg wants to make amends
(d) He would find protection at the German embassy

13. What was unique about the game of cards that Heisenberg recalls?
(a) Heisenberg won
(b) Bohr won
(c) They both won a lot of money
(d) They both lost a lot of money

14. Other than Leipzig, where else might Heisenberg have gone?
(a) Columbia University or the University of Chicago
(b) The Sorbonne or ENS in Paris
(c) The University of Copenhagen
(d) Oxford or Cambridge

15. What does Bohr compare his partnership with Heisenberg to?
(a) Heisenberg’s marriage to Elisabeth
(b) His marriage with Margrethe
(c) Einstein’s work
(d) A business partnership

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the last time Heisenberg had seen the Bohrs?

3. What does Bohr initially think about Margrethe’s proposed activity?

4. Why is Margrethe afraid of Heisenberg’s visit?

5. According to Margrethe, what happened every time Heisenberg tried to explain why he visited?

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