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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The writer of the Introduction hints that time might be able to move in what direction?
(a) Backwards.
(b) A repeat cycle.
(c) Sideways.
(d) Forwards.

3. The distance light travels in an earth year is called what?
(a) Light time.
(b) Light speed.
(c) A light year.
(d) Light distance.

4. What is the name of the particles that make up light?
(a) Photons.
(b) Protons.
(c) Gluons.
(d) Electrons.

5. Who proposed the idea that there are such things called quanta?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Stephen Hawking.
(c) Max Plank.
(d) Roger Primrose.

6. Quanta are made of what?
(a) Packets of emitted electromagnetic radiation.
(b) Packets of emitted hydroelectric radiation.
(c) Packets of emitted astroelectric radiation.
(d) Packets of emitted gamma radiation.

7. Light moves along what sort of lines?
(a) Tilted.
(b) Wavy.
(c) Straight.
(d) Curved.

8. In the universe, objects move in what type of direction?
(a) In waves.
(b) In curved lines.
(c) In straight lines.
(d) In circular motions.

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

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

11. Black holes are similar to the singularity that existed before what event?
(a) The big bang.
(b) The destruction of cluster galaxies.
(c) The creation of the earth.
(d) The expansion of the universe.

12. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1942.

13. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?
(a) Religious reasoning.
(b) Circular arguments.
(c) Disciplined logic.
(d) Mathematics.

14. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?
(a) Gaseous.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Helium.

15. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?
(a) Atomic mechanics.
(b) Theoretical mechanics.
(c) Relativity mechanics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the colors of quarks?

2. What is another name for a neutron star?

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

4. The universe is largely made up of what?

5. Who said, "God does not play dice."

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