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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. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?
(a) Bohr
(b) Margrethe
(c) The mast
(d) The heart

2. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?
(a) Its importance
(b) Its timing
(c) Its mechanics
(d) Its collaborative aspects

3. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?
(a) Furious
(b) Frustrated
(c) Happy
(d) Confused

4. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?
(a) It failed
(b) It confused him
(c) It wasn’t different
(d) It worked

5. What language does Heisenberg want Bohr to speak?
(a) Scientific notation
(b) Plain language
(c) English
(d) German

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Bohr claim he is speaking?

2. Why was the situation in #95 problematic?

3. Where were Bohr’s rooms in 1924?

4. Where did Heisenberg sleep immediately after the war?

5. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much more time did Heisenberg think he needed to make his reaction work?

2. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

3. What did Einstein show about measurement?

4. What does Heisenberg claim to think about his own plan for talking to Bohr about the atomic projects in Copenhagen?

5. What were the conditions under which Heisenberg was allowed to practice science after the war?

6. How did Bohr react during the events of Christian’s death?

7. In 1942, where is the German project in relationship to the American atomic project?

8. Where does Heisenberg spend the last months of the war, and why?

9. What would have happened if Heisenberg’s reactor had gone critical?

10. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

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