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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 think is the last variable in the quantum state of the atom?

2. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?

3. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?

4. To whom do the scientists compare Einstein?

5. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

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

Margrethe is present for the entire play, yet is not herself a scientist. What is the role of Margrethe in the play? Why is she important to our understanding of the situation?

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