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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 The Expanding Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?
(a) A timeline.
(b) A middle.
(c) An end.
(d) A birth.

2. How far away is our sun from the earth in terms of light?
(a) 9 light months.
(b) 8 light minutes.
(c) 9 light minutes.
(d) 8 light months.

3. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1975.

4. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?
(a) Stationary.
(b) Bigger than the sun.
(c) In orbit around the sun.
(d) Its own galaxy.

5. How close is the closest star, other than the sun, to earth?
(a) About 4 light years distant.
(b) About 3 light years distant.
(c) About 5 light years distant.
(d) About 5 light years distant.

Short Answer Questions

1. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?

2. The only constant in the universe is what?

3. The writer of the Introduction hints that time might be able to move in what direction?

4. Who proposed the elliptical orbits of the planets?

5. How does Hawking define scientific theory?

(see the answer key)

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