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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Heisenberg still insist works?
(a) Complementarity
(b) The Copenhagen Interpretation
(c) Schrödinger’s cat
(d) Uncertainty

5. What does Heisenberg respond to Bohr’s claim in question #155?
(a) He accepted it in 1927
(b) He demonstrated its insufficiency
(c) He will never accept it
(d) He privately accepted it

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

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

8. What does Bohr claim about Heisenberg’s attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He went too fast
(b) He went too slow
(c) He never calculated anything
(d) He never assumed anything

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?

2. How does Heisenberg suggest Bohr might have killed him?

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

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

5. Who is with Heisenberg when he has his moment of clarity?

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