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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hawking's model of the universe says the universe will end how?
(a) It will end in a big explosion.
(b) It will end because all matter will disappear.
(c) It will end because black holes will suck all matter in.
(d) It will never end.

2. Hawking believes that if science does discover a complete theory of the universe, then humans will have come to know what?
(a) The mind of God.
(b) If there is an end of time.
(c) When humanity will end.
(d) The nature of infinity.

3. What is another name for combination of operations?
(a) Equations.
(b) Factors.
(c) Symmetries.
(d) Differentials.

4. To illustrate the concept of disorder in a system, Hawking uses what example in Chapter 9?
(a) A broken vase.
(b) A bag of marbles.
(c) A jigsaw puzzle.
(d) A car crash.

5. An open string is defined as what?
(a) A string that connects nothing.
(b) A string that connects two things.
(c) A string with no end.
(d) A string with an end.

6. In what year was Einstein's vocal support of the Zionist cause recognized?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1949.

7. Even empty space is filled with what?
(a) Pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles.
(b) Pairs of positive and negative particles.
(c) Pairs of particles to form dark matter.
(d) Pairs of protons and electrons.

8. What does the letter C stand for in combinations of operations?
(a) Changing heavy particles for light particles.
(b) Changing positive particles for negative particles.
(c) Changing matter particles for virtual particles.
(d) Changing particles for antiparticles.

9. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?
(a) Collapse of the universe.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Movement.
(d) Expansion of the universe.

10. What was the name of Galileo's book that had to be smuggled to a publisher?
(a) Two New Views.
(b) Two New Sciences.
(c) Modern Physics.
(d) Modern Sciences.

11. Why do researchers want to find black holes?
(a) To prevent space travelers from entering them.
(b) To explain strage gravitational orbits of planets in bianary star systems.
(c) To explain gravitational forces that the mass of the universe cannot explain.
(d) To prevent the orbits of earth and other possible earth-like worlds from entering them.

12. Einstein said that politics are for the present but equations are for how long?
(a) Longer than politics.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Forever.
(d) Eternity.

13. The uncertainty principle says that certain pairs of quantities (like position and velocity of a particle) cannot be determined with what?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Accuracy.
(c) Experiments.
(d) Relational theory.

14. A closed string is defined as what?
(a) A string joined up with itself in a closed loop.
(b) A string that has ends.
(c) A string that closes off an area of space.
(d) A string that connects two objects and no other.

15. Hawking used what kind of space-time to reach the conclusion that the universe is similar to a sphere?
(a) Ptolemaic.
(b) Newtonian.
(c) Euclidean.
(d) Aristotelian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of matter might account for gravitational forces that cannot be explained by the mass of our universe?

2. When Hitler came to power, where was Einstein?

3. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?

4. The publication of what book made Einstein declare, " If I were wrong, then one would've been enough."

5. Hawking believes that scientists are too taken up with the "what" of the universe to ask which question?

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