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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Galileo belied that the earth did what?
(a) Held still while everything rotated around it.
(b) Was the center of the solar system.
(c) Was the center of the universe.
(d) Orbited the sun.

3. Why do researchers want to find black holes?
(a) To explain strage gravitational orbits of planets in bianary star systems.
(b) To prevent the orbits of earth and other possible earth-like worlds from entering them.
(c) To explain gravitational forces that the mass of the universe cannot explain.
(d) To prevent space travelers from entering them.

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

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

6. A closed string is defined as what?
(a) A string joined up with itself in a closed loop.
(b) A string that has ends.
(c) A string that connects two objects and no other.
(d) A string that closes off an area of space.

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

8. "We see the universe the way it is because we exist," demonstrates what principle?
(a) Anthropic principle.
(b) Rationalization principle.
(c) Humanity principle.
(d) Anthropomorphic principle.

9. What might escape from a black hole?
(a) Photons.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Something with more gravitational force than a black hole.
(d) Gamma rays.

10. If you use Hawking's model of the universe, how did the universe start?
(a) It started with the collapse of a black hole in a previous universe.
(b) There was no beginning, it has always been there.
(c) It started with the evaporation of other universes.
(d) It started with a big bang.

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

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

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

14. Einstein proposed who should have control over nuclear weaponry?
(a) The civilians in each state.
(b) There should be international control.
(c) Only states with democracies.
(d) The military of each state.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?

2. Which of the following is not an arrow of time recognized by Hawking's book?

3. When Hitler came to power, where was Einstein?

4. How many questions are left unanswered prior to the development of math that incorporates quantum mechanics?

5. An open string is defined as what?

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