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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. What did Heisenberg achieve in 1924?
(a) He got married
(b) He finished his doctorate
(c) He graduated from college
(d) He learned about the atom

2. When was the last time Heisenberg had seen the Bohrs?
(a) Four years earlier
(b) Nobody remembers
(c) Two years earlier
(d) Ten years earlier

3. How many of the object of Heisenberg’s envy exist in the United States?
(a) None
(b) Thousands
(c) More than thirty
(d) One

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

5. How does Heisenberg characterize their current situation?
(a) Mildly uncomfortable
(b) Irrational
(c) Impossibly difficult
(d) Challenging

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area did Bohr make his first big discovery?

2. What is the official reason for Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?

3. What happened after the SS brought Heisenberg in for questioning?

4. What excuse does Bohr make for Heisenberg regarding this first stop?

5. How old is Heisenberg during the trip to Copenhagen in Act 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the uncertainty principle?

8. What is the German Cultural Institute?

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

10. What is strange about Schrödinger’s cat?

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