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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the particles that make up light?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Gluons.
(c) Protons.
(d) Photons.

2. The point at which the force of a black hole becomes so strong that nothing can escape is called what?
(a) Escape horizon.
(b) Last chance.
(c) Event horizon.
(d) Crush point.

3. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?
(a) To accurately calculate observations.
(b) To accurately describe the very small and the very large.
(c) To accurately describe future events.
(d) To accurately describe the fate of the universe.

4. Time is not separate from space, but is combined with it to form what?
(a) Space-time.
(b) Three dimensional space.
(c) The two dimesions.
(d) The spectrum.

5. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Relativity mechanics.
(c) Atomic mechanics.
(d) Theoretical mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposed the idea that there are such things called quanta?

2. Who created the law of motion?

3. The idea of the big bang arises from what phenomena?

4. From what location was the Introduction written?

5. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one implication of the theory of relativity?

2. Why might our present day ways of thinking about the universe seem ridiculous in the future?

3. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

4. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

5. Light behaves in which two manners?

6. What are some characteristics of a black hole?

7. What was the Ancient Greek view of the universe?

8. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

9. What are quanta?

10. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?

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