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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?
(a) Happy
(b) Furious
(c) Confused
(d) Frustrated
2. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?
(a) The Leipzig Laws
(b) The Copenhagen Interpretation
(c) The Denmark Theory
(d) The Copenhagen Theorem
3. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?
(a) In Copenhagen
(b) In Tisvilde
(c) In Leipzig
(d) On Heligoland
4. What thought process does Bohr love that Heisenberg does not?
(a) Mathematical thinking
(b) Paradoxes
(c) Linear thinking
(d) Metaphors
5. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?
(a) He did not discuss it with Bohr
(b) The phenomenon he witnessed could be attributed to another factor
(c) It was later disproved
(d) He did not understand fission
6. Which scientist insulted Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) Pauli
(b) Uhlenbeck
(c) Goudsmit
(d) Bohr
7. What was the insult that a scientist gave of Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the math of the bomb
(b) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the physics of the bomb
(c) That Heisenberg was a Fascist
(d) That Heisenberg was stubborn
8. In what direction is Tisvilde?
(a) East
(b) South
(c) North
(d) West
9. What does Einstein’s work do for Bohr?
(a) Confirms his theory
(b) Makes him question his work
(c) Resolves his doubts
(d) Confuses him
10. How does Heisenberg suggest Bohr might have killed him?
(a) With a cap pistol
(b) By giving him up to the SS
(c) By strangling him
(d) With a mine
11. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?
(a) The Dark Ages
(b) The Enlightenment
(c) The Industrial Revolution
(d) The Renaissance
12. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?
(a) Margrethe
(b) The heart
(c) Bohr
(d) The mast
13. 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
14. What did people pay attention to instead of Heisenberg’s discoveries?
(a) Bohr
(b) Oppenheimer
(c) Pauli
(d) Schrödinger
15. 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
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?
2. When was the first time Heisenberg came to Copenhagen?
3. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?
4. How did Bohr react to the discovery mentioned in question #82?
5. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?
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