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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. Who is Elisabeth?
(a) Heisenberg’s wife
(b) Heisenberg’s daughter
(c) Heisenberg’s assistant
(d) Bohr’s daughter

2. When did Bohr make his first big discovery?
(a) 1924
(b) 1913
(c) 1927
(d) 1921

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

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

5. How does Margrethe refer to Weizsacker?
(a) Your enemy
(b) Our enemy
(c) Your friend
(d) Our friend

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Heisenberg currently working?

2. What does Bohr consider to have ended before Heisenberg even arrives?

3. What does one need to fission the least common uranium isotope?

4. Who accompanied Heisenberg on his 1947 trip to Copenhagen?

5. What uranium isotope is least common?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Heisenberg consult with Bohr about in 1932?

2. Why did Fermi go to Chicago?

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

4. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

5. When was fission invented?

6. How does the audience know when fission was invented?

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

8. What role did Bohr play in the atomic project?

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

10. What atomic programs exist in Germany in 1941?

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