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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 the elder of the scientists?
(a) They are the same age
(b) Heisenberg
(c) It is unclear
(d) Bohr

2. How often has Bohr gone skiing since Heisenberg last saw him?
(a) Every winter
(b) Not at all.
(c) Rarely
(d) Occasionally

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

4. What does Margrethe find most objectionable about Heisenberg?
(a) His nationality
(b) His morals
(c) His manners
(d) His appearance

5. What did Bohr do in the game of cards that Heisenberg recalls?
(a) He intentionally bluffed
(b) He folded
(c) He won with a straight
(d) He won with a fake straight

Short Answer Questions

1. What is fired in fission?

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

3. How many of the object of Heisenberg’s envy exist in the United States?

4. Where does Heisenberg invite Bohr?

5. How does Heisenberg characterize Bohr?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the tone of Bohr’s joke about skiing?

4. What is the uncertainty principle?

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

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

7. How does Heisenberg speak about Germany?

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

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

10. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

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