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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovered the theory of gravity?

2. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?

3. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?

4. What is one of the colors of quarks?

5. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?

2. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?

3. What are quanta?

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

5. What is one way that scientists determine that subatomic particles exist?

6. Why can nothing move faster than the speed of light according to the theory of relativity?

7. Light behaves in which two manners?

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

9. What are some characteristics of a black hole?

10. What determines whether a star can become a black hole?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a simile and metaphor? Why does Hawking use similes and metaphors in his book? Using examples from the book, discuss which simile and metaphor are the most effective and why.

Essay Topic 2

What does the evolution of ideas since the days of mythology have to do with our world view today? Support your answer with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Pick a scientist (Einstein, Galileo or Newton) and discuss, using examples from the book, that scientist's contributions to the view of the universe we hold today.

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