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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bohr claim about Heisenberg’s attitude towards the bomb?

2. How did Heisenberg feel on Heligoland?

3. What did the scientists who made the bomb discover about the chain reaction?

4. To what period does Heisenberg compare his work with Bohr?

5. In what direction is Elsinore Castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impetus for Heisenberg’s attaining the chair at Leipzig?

2. Why didn’t the worst happen to the reactor in Haigerloch?

3. How did Bohr react during the events of Christian’s death?

4. What did people think about Heisenberg’s reaction to Schrödinger’s mechanics?

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

6. What did Einstein show about measurement?

7. How much more time did Heisenberg think he needed to make his reaction work?

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

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

10. What tendency does Bohr claim that Margrethe has?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Heisenberg and Bohr meet three times, under vastly different circumstances. What are these circumstances? How far removed are they in time, and in place? What has changed between each meeting?

Essay Topic 2

Heisenberg implies that Bohr is just as guilty as he is for having worked with the Americans at Los Alamos. Research the project at Los Alamos and its repercussions. Write a persuasive essay in which you defend Bohr’s innocence or justify his guilt.

Essay Topic 3

Many titles are possible for this play. Why has Frayn chosen to title it after the city of Copenhagen when so many other issues are at stake?

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