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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shape of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?
(a) The scientific work of Isaac Newton.
(b) The philosophy of George Markus.
(c) The work of mathematician Karl Popper.
(d) The philosophy of science advanced by Karl Popper.

2. What does relativity show about the speed of light?
(a) The speed of light is dependent upon gravity.
(b) The speed of light will appear constant.
(c) The speed of light is independent of will.
(d) The speed of light is an illusion of motion.

3. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space can't be observed.
(b) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(c) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(d) Time and space are only observed.

4. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?
(a) A new sort of symmetry.
(b) A new sort of plane.
(c) A new sort of planck.
(d) A new sort of timewarp.

5. What did Einstein wish people to abandon concerning time?
(a) That time equals money.
(b) The idea of the 24 hour clock.
(c) A general notion of the ratio of time to speed.
(d) A universal notion of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking resist believing in?

2. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?

3. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

4. When did Einstein receive the Nobel prize?

5. How many articles did Einstein pen that rocketed him to the top of the scientific community?

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