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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. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?

2. Where did the men walk during Heisenberg’s first visit?

3. What happened to Heisenberg immediately after the war?

4. Where did Heisenberg sleep immediately after the war?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

3. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?

4. How did Heisenberg make revisions to his uncertainty paper?

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

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

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

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

9. What did Einstein show about measurement?

10. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Heisenberg makes various explanations for his question to Bohr. What was this question, and how does Heisenberg try to explain it away at various points in the play? Why is it important that he come up with an explanation?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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