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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Hawking calls the possibility of the universe collapsing "the big ____?"
(a) Bang.
(b) Smash.
(c) Crunch.
(d) Explosion.
2. Hawking used what kind of space-time to reach the conclusion that the universe is similar to a sphere?
(a) Aristotelian.
(b) Ptolemaic.
(c) Euclidean.
(d) Newtonian.
3. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?
(a) Professor Einstein Stays Away to Save His Life.
(b) We Lost the Greatest Mathematician of our Time.
(c) Good News from Einstein - He's Not Coming Back.
(d) Good-Bye Bad Science - Einstein remains in America.
4. If Hawking's model of the universe is used, black holes do what with their matter?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Make it dense and start a new big bang.
(c) Collapse on it.
(d) Release it back into space.
5. During World War 1, Einstein was a professor in which city?
(a) Munich.
(b) Haamburg.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one question we ask to make sense of the world around us?
2. Superstring theory lacks what kind of evidence?
3. Galileo argued, to the church, that when the Bible conflicted with common sense what happened?
4. Einstein proposed who should have control over nuclear weaponry?
5. Which of the following is not an arrow of time recognized by Hawking's book?
Short Essay Questions
1. What might have happened to the black holes left over from the early period of the Big Bang?
2. What is the mathematical problem regarding the origination of the universe?
3. Using imaginary numbers allows time to do what?
4. According to Hawking, people are naturally curious about what?
5. Real time is described in math using what?
6. Hawking considers Galileo to be what?
7. What does a weak form of the anthropic principle hold for the view of the universe?
8. What is ironic about Einstein's involvement in U.S. politics?
9. Einstein preferred what over the fleeting nature of politics?
10. When you combine the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, what does that mean for the universe?
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