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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Heisenberg suggest they disprove the insult of his knowledge?
(a) Confirming with Otto Hahn
(b) Confirming with Goudmit
(c) Confirming with Pauli
(d) Confirming with Bohr

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

4. What did Heisenberg’s theory need in order to work?
(a) The Schrödinger wave function
(b) Work done by Kramers
(c) Help from Bohr
(d) A cadmium rod

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

6. To whom do the scientists compare Einstein?
(a) God
(b) A priest
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) The Pope

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

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

9. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?
(a) One gram
(b) One ton
(c) Fifty kilograms
(d) 26,000 tons

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

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

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

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

14. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?
(a) The location
(b) The scale
(c) The material
(d) The actors

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?

2. What does Bohr claim about Heisenberg’s attitude towards the bomb?

3. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?

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

5. What does Heisenberg hesitate to accept scientifically?

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