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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who proposed the elliptical orbits of the planets?
(a) Newton.
(b) Kepler.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Einstein.

4. Who created the law of motion?
(a) Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Hawking.
(d) Galileo.

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

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

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

8. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?
(a) To accurately describe the very small and the very large.
(b) To accurately calculate observations.
(c) To accurately describe the fate of the universe.
(d) To accurately describe future events.

9. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?
(a) Away from each other.
(b) Away from earth.
(c) Towards each other.
(d) Towards earth.

10. What theory best describes the singularities of black holes and big bangs?
(a) Theory of relativity.
(b) Molecular engineering.
(c) Theory of everything.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

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

12. How far away is our sun from the earth in terms of light?
(a) 8 light minutes.
(b) 8 light months.
(c) 9 light minutes.
(d) 9 light months.

13. What shape did Aristotle think the Earth was?
(a) A disk.
(b) A sphere.
(c) Oval.
(d) Flat.

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

15. What question is among the unanswerable questions children ask, according to the Introduction?
(a) Why does time only go in one direction?
(b) What happens when we die?
(c) Why are we here?
(d) Why is there a universe?

Short Answer Questions

1. The only constant in the universe is what?

2. The universe is largely made up of what?

3. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?

4. When was the uncertainty principle developed?

5. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?

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