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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 critical mass was actually needed for the bomb?
(a) One ton
(b) One gram
(c) 26,000 tons
(d) Fifty kilograms

2. What does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?
(a) Schrödinger’s cat
(b) His own stubbornness
(c) A cloud chamber
(d) Bohr’s work on fission

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

4. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?
(a) The Dark Ages
(b) The Renaissance
(c) The Industrial Revolution
(d) The Enlightenment

5. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?
(a) Pauli
(b) Margrethe
(c) Schrödinger
(d) Nobody ever did

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?

2. What is Heisenberg’s response to Bohr’s criticism of his thought process?

3. How did Heisenberg feel about Kramers?

4. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?

5. What language does Bohr claim he is speaking?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

7. How did Heisenberg make revisions to his uncertainty paper?

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

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

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

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