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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 accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?

2. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?

3. How did Bohr react to the discovery mentioned in question #82?

4. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?

5. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?

5. How much more time did Heisenberg think he needed to make his reaction work?

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

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

8. What did people think about Heisenberg’s reaction to Schrödinger’s mechanics?

9. What did Einstein show about measurement?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Heisenberg states at various points that he knew how to correctly calculate the uranium needed, but that he didn’t do it. What is the evidence that he knew but didn’t act? What is the evidence that he didn’t know how to calculate the number? How does that change the character and the motives he presents here?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Bohr and Heisenberg fight throughout the play, but also resolve their differences at various points. What are the issues that lead them into a stalemate? What helps them make up after fighting? Do they ever really resolve any of their issues?

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