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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to special relativity, which of the following can move faster than light?
(a) Gravitational waves.
(b) Neutrinos.
(c) Quantum data.
(d) Nothing can move faster than light.

2. What discovery about string theory triggered the "superstring revolution"?
(a) It was found to encompass the four fundamental forces of matter.
(b) Einstein announced that it exactly matched his formulas for general relativity.
(c) It was experimentally confirmed at Fermilab in the US.
(d) Its approximate equations were solved for the first time.

3. How can black holes be detected?
(a) With an ultraviolet-range telescope.
(b) By their effects on objects around them.
(c) By observing the directions of solar winds.
(d) By looking for dark gaps in clusters of stars.

4. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of gravity?
(a) The graviton.
(b) The gravino.
(c) The Einstein boson.
(d) The Calabi-Yau particle.

5. When the distance between two objects is doubled, what happens to the strength of the gravitational pull between them?
(a) It diminishes to one-fourth its original value.
(b) It is unchanged.
(c) It quadruples.
(d) It diminishes to one-half its original value.

6. The smallest possible unit of energy is referred to as _____.
(a) A quantum.
(b) A muon.
(c) A quark.
(d) A photon.

7. How many dimensions did the tiny objects involved in the original statement of string theory have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

8. Which of the following did Einstein considered time?
(a) A fourth dimension, alongside the three spatial dimensions.
(b) The fifth fundamental force of the universe.
(c) A three-dimensional field.
(d) A physical substance, composed of particles.

9. What is the shape of all particles, at the smallest possible level, according to string theory?
(a) A tangled ball of thin filament.
(b) An infinitely long string.
(c) A thread of thin strings.
(d) A one-dimension loop.

10. Which of the following is true of a particle's spin?
(a) It depends on the strength of the local magnetic field.
(b) It is constant for that particle.
(c) It changes depending on the particle's energy.
(d) It increases with each interaction with a particle of greater spin.

11. Quantum chromodynamics concerns quantum mechanics and ____.
(a) The strong force.
(b) The electromagnetic force.
(c) The weak force.
(d) Gravity.

12. Which of the following is one of the major problems in using both quantum physics and general relativity?
(a) At small scales, quantum physics predicts uncertainty, but general relativity requires certainty.
(b) General relativity is time-dependant, quantum physics is a steady-state theory.
(c) General relativity is a wave theory, but quantum physics is a particle theory.
(d) Quantum physics predicts that all particles are massless.

13. What is the fundamental particle, the smallest possible bundle of energy, for the electromagnetic force?
(a) The electron.
(b) The photon.
(c) The neutrino.
(d) The gluon.

14. What type of a wave is light?
(a) An electromagnetic wave.
(b) A gravitational wave.
(c) An electrical wave.
(d) A photonic wave.

15. What does the quantum electroweak theory state about the two fundamental forces it describes?
(a) They are identical at quantum scales.
(b) At extreme energy and temperature conditions, they become the same thing.
(c) In four-dimensional space, they are the same thing.
(d) They only interact at the Planck length and below.

Short Answer Questions

1. Quantum physics began with the study of the energy inside a heated, closed container, such as an oven. The problem with theories at the time was that they predicted that _____.

2. The advent of fermionic vibrational patterns resulted in the creation of _____.

3. What is the photoelectric effect?

4. How are the amplitude of a string's vibration and the mass of the particle it represents related?

5. In the 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell used a new mathematical framework to unite _____.

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