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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. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(b) Berlin and Kohn.
(c) Honolulu and Maui.
(d) Paris and London.

2. What may be a law of nature?
(a) Condensation.
(b) Decompression.
(c) Lifestyle.
(d) Inflation.

3. What is a p = 1 brane?
(a) A box.
(b) A cone.
(c) A plane.
(d) A string.

4. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) A light was turned on.
(b) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.
(c) A "Big Bang."
(d) An earthquake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What may imaginary time surfaces actually be?

2. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?

3. What can quantum theory represent?

4. What two things are considered capable of shaping space-time, according to Einstein?

5. What can Einstein's General Relativity be combined with?

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