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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Heisenberg’s response to Bohr’s criticism of his thought process?
(a) He has been a respected member of their field for decades
(b) He cares deeply about the Nazi party
(c) Science is about practicalities
(d) Math is sense

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

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

4. 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

5. Which scientist insulted Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) Uhlenbeck
(b) Bohr
(c) Pauli
(d) Goudsmit

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

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

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

9. What did the scientists who made the bomb discover about the chain reaction?
(a) It was impossible to do
(b) It was impossible to use cadmium
(c) They needed far too much uranium
(d) It was faster than anticipated

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

11. 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

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

13. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?
(a) The Leipzig Laws
(b) The Denmark Theory
(c) The Copenhagen Interpretation
(d) The Copenhagen Theorem

14. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?
(a) Where they went
(b) The season
(c) What they debated
(d) The language they spoke in

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?

2. What non-scientific talent of Kramers’ do Heisenberg and Bohr discuss?

3. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?

4. Given Bohr’s conception of their work, what does Margrethe thus claim that Heisenberg can’t see?

5. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?

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