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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the situation in #95 problematic?
(a) Because Heisenberg and Bohr had argued
(b) Because he had already publicly rejected it
(c) Because he hated Kramers
(d) Because there was no cadmium in the area

2. In Act 2, how does Margrethe attempt to cut the tension between the two men?
(a) By changing the subject
(b) By scolding them
(c) By offering tea and cake
(d) By reminding them of the old days

3. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?
(a) Its importance
(b) Its mechanics
(c) Its collaborative aspects
(d) Its timing

4. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?
(a) With a bomb
(b) With a pistol
(c) In a duel
(d) With a mine

5. What does Bohr claim that Heisenberg never totally accepted?
(a) Schrödinger’s cat
(b) Wave mechanics
(c) Complementarity
(d) Uncertainty

6. What language does Heisenberg want Bohr to speak?
(a) Scientific notation
(b) English
(c) German
(d) Plain language

7. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?
(a) They proved the existence of God
(b) They solved the mystery of the atom
(c) They made science accessible to all
(d) They put man at the center of the universe

8. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?
(a) Einstein’s
(b) Nobody; it is entirely new
(c) Schrödinger’s
(d) Kramers’

9. How did Heisenberg reconcile the problem in #96?
(a) He reconciled with Bohr
(b) He publicly refused to change his position
(c) He issued a press release
(d) He added a postscript to the paper

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

11. What does Heisenberg think is the last variable in the quantum state of the atom?
(a) Its location
(b) Its size
(c) Its spin
(d) Its mass

12. In what direction is Elsinore Castle?
(a) West
(b) North
(c) East
(d) South

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What thought process does Bohr love that Heisenberg does not?

2. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?

3. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?

4. Given Bohr’s conception of their work, what does Margrethe thus claim that Heisenberg can’t see?

5. In what direction is Tisvilde?

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