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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Bohr’s opinion of Heisenberg’s resolution to his problem?
(a) He is confused by it
(b) He thinks it is insufficient
(c) He thinks it goes overboard
(d) He did not notice it

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

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

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

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

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

10. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?
(a) The heart
(b) Bohr
(c) The mast
(d) Margrethe

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

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

13. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?
(a) Heisenberg fell in love
(b) They had an argument
(c) To teach in Germany
(d) Heisenberg no longer respected Bohr’s intelligence

14. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?
(a) In Copenhagen
(b) In Tisvilde
(c) In Leipzig
(d) On Heligoland

15. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?
(a) Furious
(b) Frustrated
(c) Happy
(d) Confused

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the situation in #95 problematic?

2. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?

3. What do the men do at the end of the play?

4. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?

5. Where were Bohr’s rooms in 1924?

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