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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Bohr and Heisenberg’s collaboration called?
(a) The Denmark Theory
(b) The Leipzig Laws
(c) The Copenhagen Theorem
(d) The Copenhagen Interpretation

4. Where were Heisenberg’s rooms in 1924?
(a) In a modern apartment building
(b) In servants’ quarters at the Institute
(c) In a palace
(d) In comfortable quarters at the Institute

5. 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

6. What do the men do at the end of the play?
(a) They calculate the bomb’s necessities together
(b) They do one more draft
(c) They have nothing left to say
(d) They apologize to Margrethe

7. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?
(a) Whom he really loves
(b) The reason he left Copenhagen
(c) What is in his heart
(d) The reason he came to Copenhagen

8. What does Bohr claim that Heisenberg never totally accepted?
(a) Complementarity
(b) Schrödinger’s cat
(c) Uncertainty
(d) Wave mechanics

9. In retrospect, what do Heisenberg and Bohr doubt about their first meeting?
(a) Where they went
(b) The season
(c) The language they spoke in
(d) What they debated

10. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
(a) Uncertainty
(b) Complementarity
(c) Wave mechanics
(d) Schrödinger’s cat

11. What is Bohr’s opinion of Heisenberg’s resolution to his problem?
(a) He did not notice it
(b) He thinks it is insufficient
(c) He thinks it goes overboard
(d) He is confused by it

12. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?
(a) Frustrated
(b) Happy
(c) Furious
(d) Confused

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

14. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?
(a) His wave theorem
(b) His work on the atom with Bohr
(c) A series of mathematical proofs
(d) His uncertainty paper

15. What does Heisenberg think is the last variable in the quantum state of the atom?
(a) Its location
(b) Its mass
(c) Its spin
(d) Its size

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people pay attention to instead of Heisenberg’s discoveries?

2. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?

3. What does Heisenberg hesitate to accept scientifically?

4. What does Margrethe say about Heisenberg and uncertainty?

5. What does Heisenberg respond to Bohr’s claim in question #155?

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