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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?
(a) Gaseous.
(b) Helium.
(c) Hydrogen.
(d) Liquid.

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

5. How does Hawking define scientific theory?
(a) A model of the universe that meets common sense expectations.
(b) A model of the universe that predicts some events, but isn't accurate.
(c) A model of the universe with a set of rules.
(d) A model of the universe made up of molecules.

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

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

8. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Murray Gell-Mann.
(d) James Chadwick.

9. The only constant in the universe is what?
(a) The speed of light.
(b) Space.
(c) The speed of sound.
(d) Time.

10. What is one of the categories of force-carrying virtual protons?
(a) Gravityions.
(b) Gluons.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Stickons.

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

12. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?
(a) Because it gives room for the Biblical account of creation.
(b) Because it gives room for the existence of God.
(c) Because it gives room for the existence of heaven and hell.
(d) Because it gives room for the existence of other worlds.

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

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

15. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?
(a) Kapal.
(b) Newton.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?

2. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?

3. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?

4. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?

5. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?

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