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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. Where did Bohr have his most important insight, according to Heisenberg?
(a) Oxford
(b) Columbia
(c) Princeton
(d) Chicago

2. What activity does Margrethe suggest for the two men?
(a) Table-tennis
(b) Sailing
(c) Walking
(d) Skiing

3. Who accompanied Heisenberg on his 1947 trip to Copenhagen?
(a) His wife
(b) A British intelligence minder
(c) A Gestapo officer
(d) His son

4. What kind of impression does Heisenberg make on his first stop with Bohr?
(a) A negative one
(b) A positive one
(c) A neutral one
(d) He already knows everybody

5. What is Heisenberg’s justification for staying in Germany?
(a) He agrees with the Nazi cause
(b) He wants to rebuild German science after the war
(c) He wants to be close to Bohr
(d) The German scientists are breaking new ground

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margrethe find most objectionable about Heisenberg?

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

3. How does Bohr claim he reacted to Heisenberg?

4. What animal did Schrödinger use in his example?

5. How do Bohr and Heisenberg greet each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is strange about Schrödinger’s cat?

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

3. What is the German Cultural Institute?

4. Why did Fermi go to Chicago?

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

6. What relationship does Heisenberg draw between skiing and thinking?

7. Other than Heisenberg, who is the major German physicist still working in Germany?

8. Why does Bohr think the Allied scientists were working on the bomb?

9. What was Schrödinger’s work that Heisenberg struggled to accept?

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

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