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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Hawking believes that if science does discover a complete theory of the universe, then humans will have come to know what?
(a) If there is an end of time.
(b) The mind of God.
(c) When humanity will end.
(d) The nature of infinity.

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

4. The idea of the big bang arises from what phenomena?
(a) The theory of relativity.
(b) The decreasing universe.
(c) The theory of light.
(d) The expanding universe.

5. Science has become too _____, so that normal people and philosophers cannot understand it.
(a) Technical and mathematical.
(b) Removed from reality.
(c) Complex.
(d) Abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the idea that a star can collapse and become a black hole?

2. Why do researchers want to find black holes?

3. Hawking believes that scientists are too taken up with the "what" of the universe to ask which question?

4. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?

5. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?

(see the answer key)

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