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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 Heisenberg currently teaching?

2. When did Heisenberg try and fail to see the Bohrs for the second time?

3. Who is protecting the Bohrs, according to Heisenberg?

4. What does Bohr consider to have ended before Heisenberg even arrives?

5. What kind of impression does Heisenberg make on his first stop with Bohr?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the audience know when fission was invented?

2. What role did Bohr play in the atomic project?

3. What is the religious relationship between Bohr and Heisenberg that is alluded to throughout the play?

4. What is the German Cultural Institute?

5. Why does Bohr say that he is a mathematically curious entity?

6. What does Heisenberg claim are the political implications of what he was saying to Bohr?

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

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

9. What feelings did Heisenberg have towards Kramers?

10. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Uncertainty permeates this play, both in its scientific and prosaic senses. What is the uncertainty at the core of the play? Can the uncertainty truly be compared to scientific uncertainty? Can the issues at stake in the play ever be determined for certain?

Essay Topic 2

Heisenberg implies that Bohr is just as guilty as he is for having worked with the Americans at Los Alamos. Research the project at Los Alamos and its repercussions. Write a persuasive essay in which you defend Bohr’s innocence or justify his guilt.

Essay Topic 3

Many titles are possible for this play. Why has Frayn chosen to title it after the city of Copenhagen when so many other issues are at stake?

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