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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An open string is defined as what?
(a) A string that connects nothing.
(b) A string with no end.
(c) A string that connects two things.
(d) A string with an end.

2. To illustrate the concept of disorder in a system, Hawking uses what example in Chapter 9?
(a) A broken vase.
(b) A bag of marbles.
(c) A car crash.
(d) A jigsaw puzzle.

3. What year did Galileo die?
(a) 1644.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1646.
(d) 1642.

4. What church panel was Galileo brought before?
(a) The Censors.
(b) The Crusade.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Seekers.

5. Hawking's model of the universe says the universe will end how?
(a) It will end in a big explosion.
(b) It will end because all matter will disappear.
(c) It will never end.
(d) It will end because black holes will suck all matter in.

6. The man who was convicted of trying to murder Einstein was fined how much?
(a) He wasn't fined at all.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) He was thrown in jail, not fined.
(d) Six dollars.

7. What types of numbers can be used to run time backwards?
(a) Negative numbers.
(b) Real numbers.
(c) Complex numbers.
(d) Imaginary numbers.

8. Gamma ray detection might be able to be used to detect what?
(a) White dwarfs.
(b) Quasars.
(c) Pulsars.
(d) Black holes.

9. What was the name of Galileo's book that had to be smuggled to a publisher?
(a) Two New Views.
(b) Modern Physics.
(c) Two New Sciences.
(d) Modern Sciences.

10. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Gluons.
(c) Virtual.
(d) Gamma.

11. If there is a grand unified theory, according to Hawking it would be the ultimate triumph of what?
(a) Physics.
(b) Human reason.
(c) Human philosophy.
(d) Science.

12. Mathematics is the language of what?
(a) How things work in the universe.
(b) Natural sciences.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Physics.

13. Einstein said that politics are for the present but equations are for how long?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Longer than politics.
(d) Forever.

14. What is entropy?
(a) Amount of velocity in a system.
(b) Amount of disorder in a system.
(c) Amount of disintegration in a system.
(d) Amount of movement in a system.

15. There are at least how many different arrows of time?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. A long time friend of Galileo's held which high office in the church?

2. Hawking believes that if science does discover a complete theory of the universe, then humans will have come to know what?

3. If you use Hawking's model of the universe, how did the universe start?

4. What is one question we ask to make sense of the world around us?

5. Einstein was offered the presidency of which country?

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