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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. What is one of the colors of quarks?

2. How far away is our sun from the earth in terms of light?

3. What is one of the categories of force-carrying virtual protons?

4. Who created the law of motion?

5. What question is among the unanswerable questions children ask, according to the Introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. When looking at the sky on a clear night what do you see and how far away is it?

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

3. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?

4. What is the difference between the Aristotelian approach to science and Galileo's approach?

5. What determines whether a star can become a black hole?

6. What could cause the expansion of the universe to go on forever?

7. What was the Ancient Greek view of the universe?

8. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and predictions?

9. Light behaves in which two manners?

10. What model of the atom persisted until the 1960's?

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

Hawking says there are three possibilities for the unification of physics theory. What are they? Which one will prevail? Support your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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

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