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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Brief History of Relativity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?
(a) Time.
(b) Ether.
(c) Methane.
(d) Asteroids.

3. When was Einstein born?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1798.

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

5. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?
(a) The universe would come to an end.
(b) The universe would never have existed.
(c) The universe would never die.
(d) The universe would collapse and recreate itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

2. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

3. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?

4. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?

5. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?

(see the answer key)

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