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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heisenberg say about the years they worked together?
(a) That he longed to escape
(b) That it was always winter
(c) That they felt long
(d) That they were amazing

2. How does Heisenberg suggest they disprove the insult of his knowledge?
(a) Confirming with Pauli
(b) Confirming with Otto Hahn
(c) Confirming with Bohr
(d) Confirming with Goudmit

3. 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 put man at the center of the universe
(c) They proved the existence of God
(d) They solved the mystery of the atom

4. What was the insult that a scientist gave of Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) That Heisenberg was stubborn
(b) That Heisenberg was a Fascist
(c) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the physics of the bomb
(d) That Heisenberg didn’t understand the math of the bomb

5. What season was it when Heisenberg first visited Copenhagen?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Fall
(d) Summer

6. Which scientist insulted Heisenberg’s knowledge?
(a) Uhlenbeck
(b) Bohr
(c) Goudsmit
(d) Pauli

7. What is Bohr’s criticism of Heisenberg’s thought process?
(a) He only cares about math
(b) He doesn’t care about science
(c) He only cares about practicalities
(d) He doesn’t care about the political repercussions of his work

8. In Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory, what or who is the nucleus?
(a) Margrethe
(b) Bohr
(c) The mast
(d) The heart

9. What did Heisenberg’s theory need in order to work?
(a) Work done by Kramers
(b) Help from Bohr
(c) The Schrödinger wave function
(d) A cadmium rod

10. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?
(a) The Dark Ages
(b) The Renaissance
(c) The Industrial Revolution
(d) The Enlightenment

11. What does Heisenberg respond to Bohr’s claim in question #155?
(a) He demonstrated its insufficiency
(b) He privately accepted it
(c) He will never accept it
(d) He accepted it in 1927

12. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?
(a) With a pistol
(b) In a duel
(c) With a mine
(d) With a bomb

13. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?
(a) The location
(b) The actors
(c) The material
(d) The scale

14. What does Heisenberg claim is different about his resistant act during the war?
(a) It failed
(b) It wasn’t different
(c) It confused him
(d) It worked

15. How did Heisenberg reconcile the problem in #96?
(a) He added a postscript to the paper
(b) He publicly refused to change his position
(c) He reconciled with Bohr
(d) He issued a press release

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heisenberg think is the last variable in the quantum state of the atom?

2. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?

3. Where did Bohr work out complementarity?

4. Why did Heisenberg leave Bohr?

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

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