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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man who was convicted of trying to murder Einstein was fined how much?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) He was thrown in jail, not fined.
(c) Six dollars.
(d) He wasn't fined at all.

2. Einstein said that politics are for the present but equations are for how long?
(a) Eternity.
(b) Infinity.
(c) Longer than politics.
(d) Forever.

3. What is one question we ask to make sense of the world around us?
(a) What do I do on earth?
(b) Why is the world the way it is?
(c) Why do I think the way I do?
(d) Why am I here?

4. What force is the weakest of the four categories of forces?
(a) Attraction.
(b) Gravity.
(c) Energy.
(d) Light.

5. What is the second law of thermodynamics?
(a) In any closed system, time is relative.
(b) In any closed system, the ordering principles stay the same.
(c) In any closed system, disorder decreases over time.
(d) In any closed system, disorder increases over time.

6. What scientific feat led to the introduction of imaginary time?
(a) Trying to unite the concept of black holes and the big bang.
(b) Trying to create a testable hypothesis for the big bang.
(c) Trying to unify small forces with the theory of relativity.
(d) Trying to unify gravity with quantum mechanics.

7. Galileo wrote about Copernicus' theory in which language?
(a) French.
(b) Greek.
(c) Italian.
(d) Latin.

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

9. How many questions are left unanswered prior to the development of math that incorporates quantum mechanics?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

10. What year did the church declare Copernicanism false and erroneous?
(a) 1616.
(b) 1614.
(c) 1615.
(d) 1617.

11. What is the fate of black holes according to Hawking's model of the universe?
(a) They will collapse.
(b) They will start their own universes.
(c) They will evaporate.
(d) They will explode.

12. 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?
(a) Situational principles must be tested.
(b) Situations happen with predictablity.
(c) Situations are reversed.
(d) Situations are unchanged.

13. There must be a beginning and an end to the universe if what theory is used?
(a) Theory of relativity.
(b) Singulatiry theory.
(c) Theory of light.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

14. Einstein was offered the presidency of which country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Israel.
(d) Palestine.

15. What book did Galileo publish, with the backing of the church's censors?
(a) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
(b) Dialogue Concerning the Relation of the World.
(c) Dialogue Concerning God and Science.
(d) Dialogue Concerning Humanity and the Universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. A long time friend of Galileo's held which high office in the church?

2. What else can we not see, besides black holes?

3. What are the basic building blocks of string theory?

4. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?

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

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