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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 thought process does Bohr love that Heisenberg does not?
(a) Metaphors
(b) Paradoxes
(c) Linear thinking
(d) Mathematical thinking

2. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?
(a) Bohr thought he was trying to speak in Danish
(b) He didn’t know a word of it
(c) He spoke in German
(d) He was perfectly fluent

3. Where were Bohr’s rooms in 1924?
(a) In a palace
(b) In servants’ quarters at the Institute
(c) In a modern apartment building
(d) In comfortable quarters at the Institute

4. How old was Ernest when Heisenberg arrived?
(a) He was ten years old
(b) He was one year old
(c) He was one week old
(d) He wasn’t born yet

5. Where did the men walk during Heisenberg’s first visit?
(a) To Tisvilde
(b) To Elsinore
(c) Faelled Park
(d) Around the gardens

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about Heisenberg’s accepting the chair at Leipzig?

2. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

3. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?

4. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?

5. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Fermi achieve the first self-sustaining chain reaction, in relationship to Heisenberg?

2. What did people think about Heisenberg’s reaction to Schrödinger’s mechanics?

3. What is Heisenberg’s plan (according to him, in present day) for talking to Bohr about the atomic project?

4. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

6. What was strange about the cadmium that Heisenberg had in Haigerloch?

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

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

9. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?

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

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