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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Galileo's book that had to be smuggled to a publisher?
(a) Two New Sciences.
(b) Two New Views.
(c) Modern Sciences.
(d) Modern Physics.

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

3. What are the basic building blocks of string theory?
(a) Strings that exist only in outer space.
(b) Strings connecting everything with gravitational forces.
(c) Strings of vibrating energy.
(d) Strings of matter.

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

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

6. Galileo argued, to the church, that when the Bible conflicted with common sense what happened?
(a) Common sense was the truth.
(b) The Bible was the truth.
(c) The Bible was allegorical.
(d) That science should seek to know the truth.

7. A possible solution to combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle is what?
(a) Cancelation of infinities.
(b) Creating a new particle.
(c) Supergravity.
(d) Elimination of the cosmological constant.

8. To illustrate the concept of disorder in a system, Hawking uses what example in Chapter 9?
(a) A bag of marbles.
(b) A broken vase.
(c) A car crash.
(d) A jigsaw puzzle.

9. What church panel was Galileo brought before?
(a) The Seekers.
(b) The Inquisition.
(c) The Censors.
(d) The Crusade.

10. What does the P stand for in combinations of operations?
(a) The place a particle holds.
(b) The positve of a negative.
(c) The particular charge of a particle.
(d) The mirror image.

11. What theory says that the universe has always existed and always will?
(a) Particle physics.
(b) Grand unified theory.
(c) Theory of everything.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

12. What is another name for combination of operations?
(a) Differentials.
(b) Equations.
(c) Factors.
(d) Symmetries.

13. 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 are unchanged.
(c) Situations are reversed.
(d) Situations happen with predictablity.

14. When Hitler came to power, where was Einstein?
(a) America.
(b) Russia.
(c) Europe.
(d) Germany.

15. 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 work on proving Copernicanism.
(d) His second major book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?

2. Who said, "Physics as we know it will be over in six months."

3. What does the letter C stand for in combinations of operations?

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

5. Einstein was what nationality by birth?

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