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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 problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?
(a) It was later disproved
(b) The phenomenon he witnessed could be attributed to another factor
(c) He did not understand fission
(d) He did not discuss it with Bohr

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

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

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

5. What does Heisenberg still insist works?
(a) The Copenhagen Interpretation
(b) Complementarity
(c) Schrödinger’s cat
(d) Uncertainty

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?

3. Where were Heisenberg’s rooms in 1924?

4. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?

5. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

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