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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 language does Bohr claim he is speaking?
(a) English
(b) German
(c) The language of classical mechanics
(d) Danish

2. How did Heisenberg reconcile the problem in #96?
(a) He issued a press release
(b) He added a postscript to the paper
(c) He publicly refused to change his position
(d) He reconciled with Bohr

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

4. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?
(a) They put man at the center of the universe
(b) They made science accessible to all
(c) They solved the mystery of the atom
(d) They proved the existence of God

5. What did Heisenberg not understand when he had his moment of clarity?
(a) Matrix calculus
(b) Particle functions
(c) Wave mechanics
(d) Fission

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Heisenberg do in Japan?

2. What does Heisenberg still insist works?

3. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?

4. What thought process does Bohr love that Heisenberg does not?

5. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

2. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

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

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

6. What did Einstein show about measurement?

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

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

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

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

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