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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second thing that Heisenberg thinks he will remain famous for?

2. Where was the ski resort that all three main characters visited?

3. When did Heisenberg try and fail to see the Bohrs for the first time?

4. Why is Margrethe afraid of Heisenberg’s visit?

5. Who accompanied Heisenberg on his 1947 trip to Copenhagen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Heisenberg think Bohr could have played, but didn’t, in the atomic project?

2. What is the German Cultural Institute?

3. What wartime experience has Heisenberg had that Bohr has not?

4. What did Heisenberg say (in the past) about Jensen’s claim?

5. What is the uncertainty principle?

6. What conflict does the rift between Bohr and Heisenberg is Margrethe reminded of?

7. What was Schrödinger’s work that Heisenberg struggled to accept?

8. What is the conflict Bohr and Heisenberg have over Gamow and Casimir?

9. When was fission invented?

10. Other than Heisenberg, who is the major German physicist still working in Germany?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Margrethe makes various aside comments regarding Heisenberg. What is her opinion of him? Is it a static opinion, or does it change over the course of the play? If so, how, and why?

Essay Topic 2

The Bohrs had two sons who were lost to them. What is the significance of these sons? How does Heisenberg compare to them? What is the significance of this comparison?

Essay Topic 3

Describe fission. What is the significance of this process? In what ways might this be viewed as a metaphor for the relationship between Bohr and Heisenberg?

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