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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gravity acts only upon what type of particles?
(a) Positive.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Matter.
(d) Wave.

2. Who discovered the theory of gravity?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Newton.
(d) Hubble.

3. Who said, "God does not play dice."
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Erwin Schrodinger.
(c) Max Plank.
(d) Werner Heisenberg.

4. Stars without enough mass to become a black hole can become what?
(a) Blue giants.
(b) White dwarfs.
(c) Red dwarfs.
(d) Red giants.

5. How close is the closest star, other than the sun, to earth?
(a) About 4 light years distant.
(b) About 5 light years distant.
(c) About 3 light years distant.
(d) About 5 light years distant.

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

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

8. The theory of quantum mechanics best describes what world?
(a) The small world of atoms.
(b) The small world of molecules.
(c) The small world of particles.
(d) The small world of sub-atomic particles.

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

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

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

12. As a consequence of quantum mechanics, waves sometimes behave like what?
(a) Particles.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Waves.
(d) Rays.

13. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Murray Gell-Mann.

14. A black hole has zero what?
(a) Expansion.
(b) Curvature.
(c) Mass.
(d) Volume and surface area.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Quanta are made of what?

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

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

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

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