2. What may the universe not have, given quantum mechanics?
(a) Infinite knowledge.
(b) Five histories.
(c) A single history or every possible history.
(d) A beginning and an ending.

3. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Grant.
(b) President Johnson.
(c) President Roosevelt.
(d) President Truman.

4. How were people's views of space-time changed because of Einstein's work?
(a) Space-time became understood as a passive feature.
(b) Space-time became irrelevant.
(c) No one's idea of space-time was changed.
(d) Space-time became understood as a dynamic feature.

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

6. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) They were insanely horrified.
(b) They disliked the idea.
(c) They were delighted.
(d) They were mystified.

7. Where did Einstein accept a position?
(a) The American Academy of Science.
(b) The German Academy of Science.
(c) The Italian Academy of Science.
(d) The Prussian Academy of Science.

8. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Newton's law of gravity.
(b) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.
(c) Popper's theory of demystification.
(d) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.

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

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

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

12. How many articles did Einstein pen that rocketed him to the top of the scientific community?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Ten.

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

14. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?
(a) They are sometimes red-shifted and blue-shifted.
(b) Collections of stars always have two megastars.
(c) Super novas are common in collections of stars.
(d) Black holes can be found within large collections of stars.

15. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?
(a) In terms of philosophy.
(b) In terms of scientific laws.
(c) In terms of scientific arguments.
(d) In terms of religious theories.