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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Time is not separate from space, but is combined with it to form what?
(a) Three dimensional space.
(b) The spectrum.
(c) Space-time.
(d) The two dimesions.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who created the idea that a star can collapse and become a black hole?
(a) Robert Wilson.
(b) Arno Penzias.
(c) Alexander Friedmann.
(d) Roger Penrose.

8. What star system has a fairly certain black hole?
(a) Marlin X-2.
(b) Lythia X-1.
(c) Pegasus X-2.
(d) Cygnus X-1.

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

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

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

12. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) The theory of everything.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) Particle physics.

13. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?
(a) Its own galaxy.
(b) Bigger than the sun.
(c) In orbit around the sun.
(d) Stationary.

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

15. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?
(a) Sound.
(b) Light.
(c) Waves.
(d) Electrons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How close is the closest star, other than the sun, to earth?

2. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?

3. Who developed the uncertainty principle?

4. The point at which the force of a black hole becomes so strong that nothing can escape is called what?

5. All the particles in the universe are what type of spin?

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