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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawking say math is useful for?
(a) Describing what we observe in the known universe.
(b) Communicating in a single language.
(c) Describing everything we know.
(d) Communicating about our observations.

2. In what year was Einstein's vocal support of the Zionist cause recognized?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1952.

3. What is one of Hawking's three possibilities for the unification of physics theory?
(a) That string theory will ultimately prevail.
(b) That the theories will be united when gravity is no longer a constant.
(c) There will never be unification because we don't understand everything.
(d) No theory of the universe is possible at all.

4. Science has become too _____, so that normal people and philosophers cannot understand it.
(a) Technical and mathematical.
(b) Removed from reality.
(c) Complex.
(d) Abstract.

5. More than his support for Copernicus, what of Galileo's was considered the genesis of modern physics?
(a) His development of mathematical formulas.
(b) His first major book.
(c) His second major book.
(d) His work on proving Copernicanism.

6. What type of matter might account for gravitational forces that cannot be explained by the mass of our universe?
(a) Black hole matter.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Clear matter.

7. Some particles might match up with their anti-particles at what point?
(a) When they get crushed in a black hole.
(b) When they escape a black hole.
(c) When they fall into a black hole.
(d) Before they enter a black hole.

8. What is the purpose of an arrow of time?
(a) To indicate how much time has passed.
(b) To indicate how fast time moves.
(c) To give direction to time.
(d) To indicate how far time must move.

9. In string theory, the strings have what dimension and no other?
(a) Height.
(b) Width.
(c) Depth.
(d) Length.

10. Who discovered the equation that governs the electron?
(a) Dirac.
(b) Born.
(c) Hawking.
(d) Einstein.

11. Galileo was in constant conflict with what church?
(a) Christian.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Baptist.
(d) Presbyterian.

12. If something can escape the event horizon of a black hole, it would be explained by thinking about the behavior of what?
(a) Waves.
(b) Light.
(c) Particles.
(d) Gravity.

13. Hawking believes that scientists are too taken up with the "what" of the universe to ask which question?
(a) When?
(b) Who?
(c) Why?
(d) How?

14. Hawking used what kind of space-time to reach the conclusion that the universe is similar to a sphere?
(a) Aristotelian.
(b) Newtonian.
(c) Ptolemaic.
(d) Euclidean.

15. Who said, "Physics as we know it will be over in six months."
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) Max Born.
(c) Stephen Hawking.
(d) Albert Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. The uncertainty principle says that certain pairs of quantities (like position and velocity of a particle) cannot be determined with what?

2. What was the name of Galileo's book that had to be smuggled to a publisher?

3. The laws of science that govern the behavior of matter under all normal situations say that under the combination of the two operations C and P, what happens?

4. Gamma ray detection might be able to be used to detect what?

5. There must be a beginning and an end to the universe if what theory is used?

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