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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 about Kramers?
(a) Guilty
(b) Jealous
(c) Friendly
(d) Ignorant
2. In what direction is Elsinore Castle?
(a) West
(b) South
(c) East
(d) North
3. What language does Heisenberg want Bohr to speak?
(a) Scientific notation
(b) English
(c) Plain language
(d) German
4. Where did the men walk during Heisenberg’s first visit?
(a) Faelled Park
(b) Around the gardens
(c) To Tisvilde
(d) To Elsinore
5. What does Einstein’s work do for Bohr?
(a) Confuses him
(b) Resolves his doubts
(c) Confirms his theory
(d) Makes him question his work
6. What does Heisenberg say about the years they worked together?
(a) That they felt long
(b) That he longed to escape
(c) That it was always winter
(d) That they were amazing
7. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
(a) Wave mechanics
(b) Schrödinger’s cat
(c) Complementarity
(d) Uncertainty
8. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?
(a) It doesn’t make any sense
(b) He will never understand it
(c) He misunderstood it in the past
(d) He has an affinity for it
9. Where did Heisenberg sleep immediately after the war?
(a) In a charming house
(b) In Bohr’s home
(c) On straw
(d) In a new flat
10. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?
(a) He was perfectly fluent
(b) Bohr thought he was trying to speak in Danish
(c) He spoke in German
(d) He didn’t know a word of it
11. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?
(a) What they debated
(b) The language they spoke in
(c) The season
(d) Where they went
12. What did Heisenberg not understand when he had his moment of clarity?
(a) Particle functions
(b) Fission
(c) Wave mechanics
(d) Matrix calculus
13. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?
(a) The phenomenon he witnessed could be attributed to another factor
(b) He did not discuss it with Bohr
(c) It was later disproved
(d) He did not understand fission
14. In Act 2, how does Margrethe attempt to cut the tension between the two men?
(a) By offering tea and cake
(b) By changing the subject
(c) By scolding them
(d) By reminding them of the old days
15. What does Heisenberg still insist works?
(a) Complementarity
(b) The Copenhagen Interpretation
(c) Schrödinger’s cat
(d) Uncertainty
Short Answer Questions
1. What language does Bohr claim he is speaking?
2. What is Margrethe’s theory about Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
3. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?
4. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?
5. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?
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