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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the insult that a scientist gave of Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) That Heisenberg was stubborn
(b) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the physics of the bomb
(c) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the math of the bomb
(d) That Heisenberg was a Fascist

3. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?
(a) The electron
(b) The atom
(c) The proton
(d) The quark

4. Where were Bohr’s rooms in 1924?
(a) In comfortable quarters at the Institute
(b) In a modern apartment building
(c) In a palace
(d) In servants’ quarters at the Institute

5. What is notable about Heisenberg’s accepting the chair at Leipzig?
(a) He did not have a degree himself
(b) He was as far as possible from Copenhagen
(c) He did not know how to teach
(d) He was the youngest full professor in Germany

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

7. 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

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

9. What does Einstein’s work do for Bohr?
(a) Makes him question his work
(b) Resolves his doubts
(c) Confuses him
(d) Confirms his theory

10. What does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?
(a) A cloud chamber
(b) His own stubbornness
(c) Bohr’s work on fission
(d) Schrödinger’s cat

11. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?
(a) He will never understand it
(b) It doesn’t make any sense
(c) He misunderstood it in the past
(d) He has an affinity for it

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

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

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

15. What season was it when Heisenberg first visited Copenhagen?
(a) Fall
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Summer

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?

2. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?

3. In what direction is Tisvilde?

4. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

5. What did Heisenberg do in Japan?

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