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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 The Origin and Fate of the Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many miles does light travel in one earth year?
(a) 5.5 trillion miles.
(b) 5.88 trillion miles.
(c) 5 trillion miles.
(d) 6 trillion miles.

3. Who said, "God does not play dice."
(a) Erwin Schrodinger.
(b) Max Plank.
(c) Werner Heisenberg.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. If we created a black hole by exploding a very large hydrogen bomb what would happen?
(a) The inner solar system would be destroyed.
(b) The sun would be destroyed.
(c) The entire solar system would be destroyed.
(d) The entire world would be destroyed.

5. Gravity acts only upon what type of particles?
(a) Positive.
(b) Wave.
(c) Matter.
(d) Virtual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Quanta are made of what?

2. What theory says that the universe has always existed and always will?

3. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?

4. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?

5. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?

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