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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 does Heisenberg respond to Bohr’s claim in question #155?

2. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?

3. What event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?

4. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?

5. What is Bohr’s opinion of Heisenberg’s resolution to his problem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

6. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

7. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On its surface, the play seems to be about science. However, the title and various other elements of the content link it to other spheres, as well. Can this play hold interest for those who are not interested in science? What other areas of study does it touch upon, and in what way?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Heisenberg and Bohr meet three times, under vastly different circumstances. What are these circumstances? How far removed are they in time, and in place? What has changed between each meeting?

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