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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of matter might account for gravitational forces that cannot be explained by the mass of our universe?
(a) Clear matter.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Black hole matter.

2. Gamma ray detection might be able to be used to detect what?
(a) Quasars.
(b) Pulsars.
(c) Black holes.
(d) White dwarfs.

3. Hawking believes that scientists are too taken up with the "what" of the universe to ask which question?
(a) How?
(b) Who?
(c) When?
(d) Why?

4. What is one question we ask to make sense of the world around us?
(a) Why is the world the way it is?
(b) Why do I think the way I do?
(c) Why am I here?
(d) What do I do on earth?

5. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do researchers want to find black holes?

2. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?

3. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?

4. If there is a grand unified theory, according to Hawking it would be the ultimate triumph of what?

5. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?

(see the answer key)

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