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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Universe in a Nutshell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?
(a) Penrose and Hawking.
(b) Lifshitz and Hawking.
(c) Popper and Newkowitz.
(d) Shalob and Khalatnikov.

2. When were strings regarded as insufficient?
(a) After 1985.
(b) Before 1988.
(c) Before 1985.
(d) After 1988.

3. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?
(a) Why the universe is the way it is.
(b) Why the universe is so big.
(c) Why the universe is so small.
(d) Why the universe will end.

4. Why is it important that the sky is dark?
(a) It demonstrates that the sky is more inclined to darker tones.
(b) It demonstrates that the universe must have a light switch.
(c) It demonstrates that the dark extends further than the light.
(d) It demonstrates that light hasn't reached every point in the universe.

5. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?
(a) All philosophy.
(b) The universe.
(c) Market theory.
(d) Gravitational spin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?

2. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?

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

4. What did Einstein wish people to abandon concerning time?

5. What can quantum theory represent?

(see the answer key)

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