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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?
(a) Heisenberg
(b) Margrethe
(c) Nobody
(d) A team of researchers

2. What example does Heisenberg use to illustrate his theory?
(a) Copenhagen
(b) Bohr
(c) Sailing
(d) Skiing

3. What did the scientists who made the bomb discover about the chain reaction?
(a) It was impossible to do
(b) It was impossible to use cadmium
(c) They needed far too much uranium
(d) It was faster than anticipated

4. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?
(a) Whom he really loves
(b) The reason he left Copenhagen
(c) The reason he came to Copenhagen
(d) What is in his heart

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

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

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

8. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?
(a) The Industrial Revolution
(b) The Enlightenment
(c) The Dark Ages
(d) The Renaissance

9. What is Margrethe’s theory about Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
(a) He is confused about his research
(b) He misses his father figure
(c) He wants to brag about his research
(d) He wants to turn them in to the police

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

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

12. Where was Bohr when Heisenberg accomplished his biggest scientific achievement?
(a) With Heisenberg
(b) In Sweden
(c) In Norway
(d) At the Institute

13. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?
(a) His work on the atom with Bohr
(b) His wave theorem
(c) A series of mathematical proofs
(d) His uncertainty paper

14. What language does Bohr claim he is speaking?
(a) Danish
(b) The language of classical mechanics
(c) German
(d) English

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?

2. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

3. What is Bohr’s criticism of Heisenberg’s thought process?

4. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?

5. To whom do the scientists compare Einstein?

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