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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 event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?
(a) The Bohrs had a daughter
(b) Heisenberg was married
(c) Margrethe gave birth to a son
(d) The Bohrs were married

2. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?
(a) On Heligoland
(b) In Copenhagen
(c) In Tisvilde
(d) In Leipzig

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

4. What is Margrethe’s theory about Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?
(a) He misses his father figure
(b) He wants to brag about his research
(c) He is confused about his research
(d) He wants to turn them in to the police

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Bohr and Heisenberg work together?

2. What did the scientists who made the bomb discover about the chain reaction?

3. What is Bohr’s criticism of Heisenberg’s thought process?

4. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?

5. What does Heisenberg still insist works?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

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

8. What did Einstein show about measurement?

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

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

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