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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The point at which the force of a black hole becomes so strong that nothing can escape is called what?
(a) Event horizon.
(b) Last chance.
(c) Crush point.
(d) Escape horizon.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Quanta are made of what?
(a) Packets of emitted gamma radiation.
(b) Packets of emitted astroelectric radiation.
(c) Packets of emitted hydroelectric radiation.
(d) Packets of emitted electromagnetic radiation.

9. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?
(a) Observations.
(b) Observations and mathematics.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) A theory.

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

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

12. Galaxies contain what?
(a) The earth.
(b) Other galaxies.
(c) Stars.
(d) The universe.

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

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

15. If we created a black hole by exploding a very large hydrogen bomb what would happen?
(a) The inner solar system would be destroyed.
(b) The entire world would be destroyed.
(c) The entire solar system would be destroyed.
(d) The sun would be destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?

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

3. What type of theories try to bring the various virtual particles together as one entity, but do not include gravity?

4. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?

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

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