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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?

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

3. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?

4. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?

5. A location on earth's surface is defined by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the six varieties of quarks?

2. What will happen if the expansion of the universe stops?

3. Light behaves in which two manners?

4. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?

5. What are quanta?

6. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

7. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

8. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

9. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

10. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hawking often compares and contrasts science and God. Using examples from the text: What is the purpose of comparing and contrasting science and God?

Essay Topic 2

Using the book to support your answer, answer the following question: Was there a beginning of time and will there be an end?

Essay Topic 3

Hawking simplifies many concepts in his book. Using the text to support your answer, what is the purpose of simplifying these ideas? How does Hawking accomplish this simplification of complex scientific ideas?

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