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

2. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?
(a) His uncertainty paper
(b) His wave theorem
(c) His work on the atom with Bohr
(d) A series of mathematical proofs

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

4. Where was Bohr when Heisenberg accomplished his biggest scientific achievement?
(a) At the Institute
(b) With Heisenberg
(c) In Norway
(d) In Sweden

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?

2. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

3. How long did Bohr and Heisenberg work together?

4. What season was it when Heisenberg first visited Copenhagen?

5. In what direction is Tisvilde?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

2. In 1942, where is the German project in relationship to the American atomic project?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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