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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is fired in fission?
(a) A proton
(b) An atom
(c) An electron
(d) A neutron

2. Who is Elisabeth?
(a) Bohr’s daughter
(b) Heisenberg’s wife
(c) Heisenberg’s assistant
(d) Heisenberg’s daughter

3. How was the Gestapo monitoring Heisenberg?
(a) They weren’t
(b) With spies
(c) With microphones
(d) With aerial surveillance

4. When did Heisenberg first leave Copenhagen?
(a) 1927
(b) 1913
(c) 1947
(d) 1941

5. How does Margrethe insult Heisenberg when he first arrives?
(a) She disdains German science
(b) She jokes about his wife
(c) She tells him to leave
(d) She tells him he looks older

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Heisenberg achieve in 1924?

2. What is the first thing that Heisenberg thinks he will remain famous for?

3. Where was the ski resort that all three main characters visited?

4. What does fission release?

5. How old are the characters during the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Heisenberg claim are the political implications of what he was saying to Bohr?

2. What is the conflict Bohr and Heisenberg have over Gamow and Casimir?

3. What role did Bohr play in the atomic project?

4. Where have most of the German physicists gone?

5. Other than Heisenberg, who is the major German physicist still working in Germany?

6. What were Kramers’ main personality traits, as the play describes them?

7. What are Heisenberg’s recollections of post-World War I Germany?

8. What excuse does Heisenberg make to Margrethe for leaving?

9. What relationship does Heisenberg draw between skiing and thinking?

10. What joke does Bohr make about skiing?

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