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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did the Borhs eventually go during the war?
(a) Norway
(b) Germany
(c) Sweden
(d) They stayed in Denmark
2. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
(a) Wave mechanics
(b) Complementarity
(c) Uncertainty
(d) Schrödinger’s cat
3. From whose work does Heisenberg and Bohr’s own work stem?
(a) Kramers’
(b) Nobody; it is entirely new
(c) Einstein’s
(d) Schrödinger’s
4. What is Bohr’s conception of the work that the two scientists did together in the 1920s?
(a) They made science accessible to all
(b) They proved the existence of God
(c) They solved the mystery of the atom
(d) They put man at the center of the universe
5. What do the men do at the end of the play?
(a) They calculate the bomb’s necessities together
(b) They apologize to Margrethe
(c) They have nothing left to say
(d) They do one more draft
6. What event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?
(a) Heisenberg was married
(b) The Bohrs had a daughter
(c) The Bohrs were married
(d) Margrethe gave birth to a son
7. Where did Heisenberg have his moment of clarity?
(a) In Copenhagen
(b) On Heligoland
(c) In Leipzig
(d) In Tisvilde
8. What does Einstein’s work do for Bohr?
(a) Confuses him
(b) Makes him question his work
(c) Confirms his theory
(d) Resolves his doubts
9. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?
(a) To teach in Germany
(b) Heisenberg fell in love
(c) Heisenberg no longer respected Bohr’s intelligence
(d) They had an argument
10. What season was it when Heisenberg first visited Copenhagen?
(a) Winter
(b) Fall
(c) Spring
(d) Summer
11. What example does Heisenberg use to illustrate his theory?
(a) Bohr
(b) Sailing
(c) Skiing
(d) Copenhagen
12. Who made peace between Heisenberg and Bohr?
(a) Schrödinger
(b) Margrethe
(c) Nobody ever did
(d) Pauli
13. How did Heisenberg reconcile the problem in #96?
(a) He added a postscript to the paper
(b) He reconciled with Bohr
(c) He issued a press release
(d) He publicly refused to change his position
14. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?
(a) What is in his heart
(b) Whom he really loves
(c) The reason he left Copenhagen
(d) The reason he came to Copenhagen
15. How does Heisenberg suggest they disprove the insult of his knowledge?
(a) Confirming with Pauli
(b) Confirming with Otto Hahn
(c) Confirming with Goudmit
(d) Confirming with Bohr
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Heisenberg think is the last variable in the quantum state of the atom?
2. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?
3. What did Heisenberg do in Japan?
4. What does the uncertainty principle pertain to?
5. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?
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