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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 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

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

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

4. How does Heisenberg refer to Weizsacker?
(a) Your friend
(b) Our enemy
(c) Our friend
(d) Your enemy

5. What activity does Margrethe suggest for the two men?
(a) Sailing
(b) Skiing
(c) Table-tennis
(d) Walking

Short Answer Questions

1. What inspired the Nazi’s nickname for Heisenberg?

2. What area is Bohr the acknowledged expert in?

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

4. What does fission release?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Heisenberg claim Bohr said to him when they spoke?

5. When was fission invented?

6. What wartime experience has Heisenberg had that Bohr has not?

7. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

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

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

10. Why do the Bohrs often go to Tisvilde?

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