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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the colors of quarks?
(a) Purple.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

2. What theory best describes the singularities of black holes and big bangs?
(a) Molecular engineering.
(b) Theory of everything.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Theory of relativity.

3. Time is not separate from space, but is combined with it to form what?
(a) The spectrum.
(b) The two dimesions.
(c) Space-time.
(d) Three dimensional space.

4. Hawking is what type of physicist?
(a) Particle.
(b) Astro.
(c) Theoretical.
(d) Micro.

5. What is the unit of measurement for particle energy?
(a) Electron volts.
(b) Electric particle volts.
(c) Electric volts.
(d) Eclectic volts.

6. A black hole has zero what?
(a) Expansion.
(b) Curvature.
(c) Mass.
(d) Volume and surface area.

7. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Murray Gell-Mann.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

8. Who proposed the idea that there are such things called quanta?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Roger Primrose.
(c) Stephen Hawking.
(d) Max Plank.

9. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Murray Gell-Mann.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Albert Einstein.

10. Black holes are similar to the singularity that existed before what event?
(a) The creation of the earth.
(b) The destruction of cluster galaxies.
(c) The big bang.
(d) The expansion of the universe.

11. What force is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Force.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Magnetism.

12. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Relativity mechanics.
(c) Atomic mechanics.
(d) Theoretical mechanics.

13. What type of theories try to bring the various virtual particles together as one entity, but do not include gravity?
(a) Grand Complete Theories.
(b) Theories of Unification Principles.
(c) Grand Unification Theories.
(d) Theories of Everything.

14. Quanta are made of what?
(a) Packets of emitted gamma radiation.
(b) Packets of emitted astroelectric radiation.
(c) Packets of emitted electromagnetic radiation.
(d) Packets of emitted hydroelectric radiation.

15. The idea of the big bang arises from what phenomena?
(a) The decreasing universe.
(b) The expanding universe.
(c) The theory of light.
(d) The theory of relativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered the theory of gravity?

2. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?

3. Who wrote the introduction?

4. How many quarks make up a proton or neutron?

5. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?

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