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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) Bohr’s daughter
(c) Heisenberg’s daughter
(d) Heisenberg’s assistant

2. How was the Gestapo monitoring Heisenberg?
(a) With microphones
(b) With spies
(c) They weren’t
(d) With aerial surveillance

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

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

5. What was unique about the game of cards that Heisenberg recalls?
(a) Bohr won
(b) They both lost a lot of money
(c) They both won a lot of money
(d) Heisenberg won

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are the characters during the play?

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

3. How has Bohr been treated by the occupying Germans?

4. What does Bohr initially think about Margrethe’s proposed activity?

5. Who is the elder of the scientists?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bohr say that he is a mathematically curious entity?

2. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

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

4. Where is it first reported in Europe that the Americans are working on a bomb?

5. What conflict does the rift between Bohr and Heisenberg is Margrethe reminded of?

6. Why do the Bohrs often go to Tisvilde?

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

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

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

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

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