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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 uranium isotope is least common?
(a) U-235
(b) U-238
(c) U-17
(d) U-2.

2. Where was the ski resort that all three main characters visited?
(a) Hamburg
(b) Copenhagen
(c) Tisvilde
(d) Leipzig

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

4. Why are the consequences for Germany of Bohr’s explanation for the number of Heisenerg’s coveted object in Germany?
(a) A famine is taking place
(b) They have a smaller population
(c) German knowledge is less widespread
(d) The science is left to inferior scientists

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Heisenberg think their 1941 meeting took place?

2. What is Heisenberg currently teaching?

3. What train did Heisenberg take in 1941?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

4. What atomic programs exist in Germany in 1941?

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

6. What is strange about Schrödinger’s cat?

7. How does Heisenberg speak about Germany?

8. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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