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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Heisenberg when he took his chair at Leipzig?
(a) 21
(b) 32
(c) 26
(d) 36

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

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

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

5. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?
(a) He was in charge of German science
(b) He got divorced
(c) He came back to see Bohr
(d) He died

6. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?
(a) Nobody ever did
(b) Schrödinger
(c) Margrethe
(d) Pauli

7. What non-scientific talent of Kramers’ do Heisenberg and Bohr discuss?
(a) He skied well
(b) He played the piano
(c) He played the cello
(d) He was a good swimmer

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

9. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?
(a) In Leipzig
(b) In Copenhagen
(c) In Tisvilde
(d) On Heligoland

10. What does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?
(a) Schrödinger’s cat
(b) His own stubbornness
(c) Bohr’s work on fission
(d) A cloud chamber

11. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?
(a) Norway
(b) Sweden
(c) Germany
(d) They stayed in Denmark

12. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?
(a) Its importance
(b) Its timing
(c) Its mechanics
(d) Its collaborative aspects

13. What was the insult that a scientist gave of Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) That Heisenberg was stubborn
(b) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the physics of the bomb
(c) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the math of the bomb
(d) That Heisenberg was a Fascist

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

15. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is an electron?
(a) A buoy
(b) Margrethe
(c) Blood
(d) Bohr

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Heisenberg do in Japan?

2. When was the first time Heisenberg came to Copenhagen?

3. What does Heisenberg say about the years they worked together?

4. How old was Heisenberg when he first visited Copenhagen?

5. What is Heisenberg’s response to Bohr’s criticism of his thought process?

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