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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Heisenberg, how do people usually react to Bohr?
(a) With love
(b) With mistrust
(c) With annoyance
(d) With mild admiration

2. Who is the elder of the scientists?
(a) Heisenberg
(b) Bohr
(c) They are the same age
(d) It is unclear

3. What does Heisenberg imply Weizsacker might have told Bohr?
(a) Heisenberg wants to make amends
(b) He must hide his work from Margrethe
(c) He needs to flee Denmark
(d) He would find protection at the German embassy

4. What fallacious claim did Bohr initially make about fission?
(a) Germany will never understand it
(b) Cadmium is unnecessary
(c) It cannot be used to produce weapons
(d) The Americans must master it

5. What did the Bohrs invite Heisenberg to do during this visit?
(a) Live with them
(b) Discuss his most recent discoveries
(c) Stay for the weekend
(d) Come to dinner

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bohr think that scientists are still working on fission?

2. Where does Heisenberg invite Bohr?

3. In what month did the 1914 meeting actually take place?

4. How long did Bohr estimate it would take to produce one gram of U-235?

5. At the beginning of the play, who is visiting whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

2. What are Heisenberg’s recollections of post-World War I Germany?

3. What is the tone of Bohr’s joke about skiing?

4. Why do the Bohrs often go to Tisvilde?

5. What is the major conflict over what Heisenberg said to Bohr?

6. What does Heisenberg claim are the differences in torment between Oppenheimer and himself?

7. How does Heisenberg speak about Germany?

8. What atomic programs exist in Germany in 1941?

9. What is the German Cultural Institute?

10. What did Heisenberg say (in the past) about Jensen’s claim?

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