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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the colors of quarks?
(a) Purple.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

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

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

5. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1970.

6. What is the unit of measurement for particle energy?
(a) Eclectic volts.
(b) Electric particle volts.
(c) Electron volts.
(d) Electric volts.

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

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

9. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?
(a) Murray Gell-Mann.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) James Chadwick.

10. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?
(a) Cell phones.
(b) Silicon transmisions.
(c) Liquid crystal displays.
(d) Microelectronics.

11. A location on earth's surface is defined by what?
(a) Longitude, latitude and altitude.
(b) Location, time and depth.
(c) Height, width and depth.
(d) Altitude, degree and time.

12. What is one of the varieties of quarks?
(a) Strange.
(b) Random.
(c) Odd.
(d) Quirky.

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

14. Hawking is what type of physicist?
(a) Astro.
(b) Theoretical.
(c) Particle.
(d) Micro.

15. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?
(a) Remains the same.
(b) Runs almost at the same pace.
(c) Speeds up.
(d) Slows down.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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