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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Black Holes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1941.

2. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?
(a) His body.
(b) His emotions.
(c) His mind.
(d) His ability to reason.

3. Galaxies contain what?
(a) The earth.
(b) The universe.
(c) Other galaxies.
(d) Stars.

4. Scientists try to create explanations for the way the universe works that always do what?
(a) Are developed in think tanks.
(b) Work mathematically.
(c) Are complex.
(d) Are simple and easy to understand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?

2. Gravity acts only upon what type of particles?

3. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?

4. The only constant in the universe is what?

5. If we created a black hole by exploding a very large hydrogen bomb what would happen?

(see the answer key)

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