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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. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1970.

2. What type of theories try to bring the various virtual particles together as one entity, but do not include gravity?
(a) Grand Unification Theories.
(b) Grand Complete Theories.
(c) Theories of Everything.
(d) Theories of Unification Principles.

3. Who wrote the introduction?
(a) Stephen Hawking.
(b) Carl Sagan.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Edwin Hubble.

4. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?
(a) Identical in all directions.
(b) Different only if spun half way around.
(c) Different after It makes two full rotations.
(d) Different from different directions.

5. How many miles does light travel in one earth year?
(a) 5.5 trillion miles.
(b) 5.88 trillion miles.
(c) 5 trillion miles.
(d) 6 trillion miles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one of the colors of quarks?

3. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?

4. What star system has a fairly certain black hole?

5. Light moves along what sort of lines?

(see the answer key)

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