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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Copernicus.

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

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

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

5. Stephen Hawking has what disease?
(a) AIDS.
(b) Ancel Hoffman disease.
(c) Lou Gehrig's disease.
(d) Cancer.

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

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

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

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

10. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?
(a) An end.
(b) A birth.
(c) A timeline.
(d) A middle.

11. To observe black holes you must observe what?
(a) Their effects.
(b) Their cause.
(c) Their mass.
(d) Their distance from the nearest star.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the varieties of quarks?

2. The distance light travels in an earth year is called what?

3. What is another name for a neutron star?

4. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?

5. What force is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape?

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