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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 did Heisenberg’s theory need in order to work?
(a) Help from Bohr
(b) A cadmium rod
(c) The Schrödinger wave function
(d) Work done by Kramers

2. To whom do the scientists compare Einstein?
(a) The Pope
(b) Jesus Christ
(c) A priest
(d) God

3. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?
(a) With a bomb
(b) In a duel
(c) With a pistol
(d) With a mine

4. When was the first time Heisenberg came to Copenhagen?
(a) 1921
(b) 1941
(c) 1924
(d) 1938

5. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?
(a) One gram
(b) 26,000 tons
(c) One ton
(d) Fifty kilograms

Short Answer Questions

1. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?

2. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?

3. Where did Bohr work out complementarity?

4. In Act 2, how does Margrethe attempt to cut the tension between the two men?

5. What does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Einstein show about measurement?

2. Why didn’t the worst happen to the reactor in Haigerloch?

3. What could have happened to the reactor in Haigerloch?

4. What extreme act does Heisenberg claim that Bohr would have been justified in doing?

5. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

6. What was the impetus for Heisenberg’s attaining the chair at Leipzig?

7. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

8. How was Einstein’s theory important to Heisenberg’s work?

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

10. What does Otto Hahn want to do during the last months of the war?

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