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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 does fission produce BEFORE the final product?
(a) Neptunium
(b) Uranium
(c) Plutonium
(d) Mercury

2. What is the official reason for Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
(a) An astrophysics lecture
(b) A lecture about fission
(c) He has come to see Bohr
(d) He is shopping for a cyclotron

3. What did the Bohrs invite Heisenberg to do during this visit?
(a) Discuss his most recent discoveries
(b) Come to dinner
(c) Live with them
(d) Stay for the weekend

4. How does Heisenberg propose that Bohr protect himself?
(a) Flee the country
(b) Come to Germany
(c) Make friends at the Embassy
(d) De-bug his home

5. What does one need to fission the least common uranium isotope?
(a) Fast protons
(b) Fast neutrons
(c) Regular protons
(d) Regular neutrons

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Heisenberg currently working?

2. What does Heisenberg imply Weizsacker might have told Bohr?

3. What does Heisenberg feel, approaching the door to the Bohr’s home?

4. When did Heisenberg first leave Copenhagen?

5. When did Heisenberg try and fail to see the Bohrs for the second time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Heisenberg claim are the differences in torment between Oppenheimer and himself?

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

4. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

5. What role does Heisenberg think Bohr could have played, but didn’t, in the atomic project?

6. What did Heisenberg say (in the past) about Jensen’s claim?

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

8. Why do the Bohrs often go to Tisvilde?

9. What atomic programs exist in Germany in 1941?

10. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

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