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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?
(a) The Bohrs were married
(b) Margrethe gave birth to a son
(c) The Bohrs had a daughter
(d) Heisenberg was married

2. Where did Heisenberg sleep immediately after the war?
(a) On straw
(b) In a new flat
(c) In Bohr’s home
(d) In a charming house

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

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

5. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?
(a) He came back to see Bohr
(b) He died
(c) He was in charge of German science
(d) He got divorced

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

7. What do the men do at the end of the play?
(a) They have nothing left to say
(b) They calculate the bomb’s necessities together
(c) They apologize to Margrethe
(d) They do one more draft

8. What does Heisenberg hesitate to accept scientifically?
(a) Bohr’s theories of the atom
(b) The uncertainty principle
(c) Schrödinger’s wave mechanics
(d) Kramer’s theories of fission

9. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?
(a) It was later disproved
(b) He did not understand fission
(c) He did not discuss it with Bohr
(d) The phenomenon he witnessed could be attributed to another factor

10. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?
(a) It worked
(b) It failed
(c) It confused him
(d) It wasn’t different

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

12. What did people pay attention to instead of Heisenberg’s discoveries?
(a) Pauli
(b) Bohr
(c) Oppenheimer
(d) Schrödinger

13. In what direction is Tisvilde?
(a) South
(b) East
(c) North
(d) West

14. How did Bohr react to the discovery mentioned in question #82?
(a) He was skeptical, but now believes in it
(b) He believed in it, but is now skeptical
(c) He was unconditionally supportive
(d) He still does not believe it

15. Given Bohr’s conception of their work, what does Margrethe thus claim that Heisenberg can’t see?
(a) Her
(b) Himself
(c) Copenhagen
(d) Bohr

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?

2. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?

3. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?

4. Why was the situation in #95 problematic?

5. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?

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