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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Our Future?, Star Trek or Not?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do black holes absorb?
(a) Weight.
(b) Energy.
(c) Mass.
(d) Heat.

2. Name two things that are doubling every forty years.
(a) Kohl states and energy acceleration.
(b) Energy density and population.
(c) Magnetism and force.
(d) Population and electricity consumption.

3. What is intuitive to think about the "ground state" or stationary state of an object?
(a) This object would have zero energy.
(b) This object would have two energies.
(c) This object would have multiple energies.
(d) This object would thrive in a black hole.

4. What kind of advanced development does Hawking predict for humanity?
(a) Social development.
(b) Weapon development.
(c) Biological and electronic development.
(d) Religious development.

5. What may computers also have like human brains?
(a) Multiple energies.
(b) Parallel processing.
(c) Computational processing.
(d) Multiple dimensions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?

2. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"

3. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?

4. How many books a year are estimated to be published?

5. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?

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