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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. When did Heisenberg’s most important visit to Copenhagen take place?
(a) 1947
(b) 1924
(c) 1941
(d) 1953

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Heisenberg in relationship to the Bohrs’ eldest son?

3. What is fired in fission?

4. To what does Bohr compare fission?

5. Why does Bohr think Heisenberg’s visit might be apolitical?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the German Cultural Institute?

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

4. What was Jensen’s claim about Heisenberg’s visit?

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

6. What is strange about Schrödinger’s cat?

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

8. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

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

10. What is the uncertainty principle?

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