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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 does Heisenberg invite Bohr?
(a) To Elsinore
(b) To Germany
(c) To the USA
(d) To Tisvilde

2. When did Heisenberg try and fail to see the Bohrs for the first time?
(a) 1937
(b) 1938
(c) 1939
(d) 1940

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

4. What is the official reason for Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
(a) A lecture about fission
(b) He is shopping for a cyclotron
(c) An astrophysics lecture
(d) He has come to see Bohr

5. In what month did the 1914 meeting actually take place?
(a) October
(b) November
(c) December
(d) September

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevented Heisenberg’s last visit to the Bohrs?

2. What kind of impression does Heisenberg make on his first stop with Bohr?

3. What explanation does Bohr give for the number of Heisenberg’s coveted object in Germany?

4. How many of the object of Heisenberg’s envy exist in Germany?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What excuse does Heisenberg make to Margrethe for leaving?

2. What does Heisenberg claim are the political implications of what he was saying to Bohr?

3. What is the religious relationship between Bohr and Heisenberg that is alluded to throughout the play?

4. What is the German Cultural Institute?

5. What role does Heisenberg think Bohr could have played, but didn’t, in the atomic project?

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

7. What is the conflict Bohr and Heisenberg have over Gamow and Casimir?

8. What were Kramers’ main personality traits, as the play describes them?

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

10. What is the familial relationship between Bohr and Heisenberg that is alluded to throughout the play?

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