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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. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?
(a) Sweden
(b) They stayed in Denmark
(c) Germany
(d) Norway

2. Where were Bohr’s rooms in 1924?
(a) In a palace
(b) In comfortable quarters at the Institute
(c) In a modern apartment building
(d) In servants’ quarters at the Institute

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

4. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?
(a) What they debated
(b) Where they went
(c) The season
(d) The language they spoke in

5. What do the men do at the end of the play?
(a) They do one more draft
(b) They have nothing left to say
(c) They apologize to Margrethe
(d) They calculate the bomb’s necessities together

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heisenberg say about the years they worked together?

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

3. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?

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

5. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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