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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Space and Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?
(a) Religious reasoning.
(b) Disciplined logic.
(c) Circular arguments.
(d) Mathematics.

2. Stephen Hawking has what disease?
(a) Ancel Hoffman disease.
(b) Lou Gehrig's disease.
(c) Cancer.
(d) AIDS.

3. Groups of atoms create what?
(a) Matter.
(b) Protons.
(c) Empty space.
(d) Electrons.

4. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?
(a) Neptune.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Saturn.
(d) Mars.

5. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?
(a) Light.
(b) Waves.
(c) Sound.
(d) Electrons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape did Aristotle think the Earth was?

2. In the universe, objects move in what type of direction?

3. Hawking is what type of physicist?

4. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?

5. The universe is largely made up of what?

(see the answer key)

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