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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 hesitate to accept scientifically?

2. What do the men do at the end of the play?

3. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?

4. What was strange about Heisenberg’s attempts to speak English?

5. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Other than the reason for Heisenberg’s 1941 visit to Copenhagen, the scientists debate various other issues, some of seemingly no importance. What are some of these issues, and how can they be seen as contributing to the themes of the play as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Heisenberg is a German, and Bohr is a Dane. Discuss nationality and its significance in Copenhagen. How would the play be different if the two men were both of one nationality, or the other?

Essay Topic 3

Heisenberg both harms and hurts the Bohrs in numerous ways. What does he do to help them, and which of his actions place them at risk? What are the repercussions of both kinds of actions? On the other hand, how do the Bohrs influence Heisenberg’s life?

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