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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 non-scientific talent of Kramers’ do Heisenberg and Bohr discuss?
(a) He played the cello
(b) He played the piano
(c) He skied well
(d) He was a good swimmer

2. How does Heisenberg suggest Bohr might have killed him?
(a) With a mine
(b) By strangling him
(c) By giving him up to the SS
(d) With a cap pistol

3. What language does Heisenberg want Bohr to speak?
(a) English
(b) Scientific notation
(c) German
(d) Plain language

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was problematic about Heisenberg’s great discovery?

2. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?

3. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?

4. What language does Bohr claim he is speaking?

5. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Heisenberg say about his understanding of the bomb?

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

5. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

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

7. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

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

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

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