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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 non-scientific talent of Kramers’ do Heisenberg and Bohr discuss?

2. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?

3. What is Bohr’s criticism of Heisenberg’s thought process?

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

5. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bohr react during the events of Christian’s death?

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

3. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

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

6. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

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

8. What was strange about the cadmium that Heisenberg had in Haigerloch?

9. How did Heisenberg describe Schrödinger’s mechanics?

10. What did Einstein show about measurement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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