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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 does Margrethe claim ‘finished’ Heisenberg?
(a) Schrödinger’s cat
(b) A cloud chamber
(c) Bohr’s work on fission
(d) His own stubbornness

2. What event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?
(a) The Bohrs had a daughter
(b) The Bohrs were married
(c) Heisenberg was married
(d) Margrethe gave birth to a son

3. What did Heisenberg not understand when he had his moment of clarity?
(a) Particle functions
(b) Wave mechanics
(c) Fission
(d) Matrix calculus

4. What does Heisenberg claim about his attitude towards the bomb?
(a) He assumed it was possible
(b) He tried as hard as possible to make it work
(c) He went too fast
(d) He assumed it was impossible

5. How old was Ernest when Heisenberg arrived?
(a) He was one week old
(b) He was ten years old
(c) He wasn’t born yet
(d) He was one year old

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margrethe think that Heisenberg will never know?

2. What thought process does Bohr love that Heisenberg does not?

3. What is Margrethe’s theory about Heisenberg’s 1941 visit?

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

5. What aspect of Bohr and Heisenberg’s memories of their work does Margrethe contest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the conditions under which Heisenberg was allowed to practice science after the war?

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

3. What did Einstein show about measurement?

4. What does Heisenberg claim to think about his own plan for talking to Bohr about the atomic projects in Copenhagen?

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

6. What does Otto Hahn want to do during the last months of the war?

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

8. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?

9. What did Heisenberg tell minor Nazi officials?

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

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