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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for a neutron star?
(a) White dwarf.
(b) Sun.
(c) Quasar.
(d) Pulsar.

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

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

4. What is the name of the particles that make up light?
(a) Electrons.
(b) Protons.
(c) Gluons.
(d) Photons.

5. How many quarks make up a proton or neutron?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

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

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

8. The universe has how many dimensions?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

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

10. When was the uncertainty principle developed?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1920.

11. The idea of the big bang arises from what phenomena?
(a) The expanding universe.
(b) The decreasing universe.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) The theory of light.

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

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

14. The theory of quantum mechanics best describes what world?
(a) The small world of particles.
(b) The small world of molecules.
(c) The small world of sub-atomic particles.
(d) The small world of atoms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?

2. To observe black holes you must observe what?

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

4. What is one of the colors of quarks?

5. Who developed the uncertainty principle?

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