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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

2. How does Hawking define scientific theory?
(a) A model of the universe that meets common sense expectations.
(b) A model of the universe that predicts some events, but isn't accurate.
(c) A model of the universe with a set of rules.
(d) A model of the universe made up of molecules.

3. As an observer's velocity comes close to the speed of light, the observer's mass does what?
(a) Stays the same.
(b) Covers more space.
(c) Decreases to almost nothing.
(d) Increases to almost infinity.

4. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mars.

5. Who created the relativity formula that states energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?

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

4. Who wrote the introduction?

5. The universe is largely made up of what?

(see the answer key)

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