A Brief History of Time Test | Final Test - Easy

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A Brief History of Time Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Galileo die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1646.
(d) 1644.

2. Infinities in partial theories can be canceled out through a process known as what?
(a) Restructuring.
(b) Rebalancing.
(c) Renormalization.
(d) Recontouring.

3. Hawking believes that if science does discover a complete theory of the universe, then humans will have come to know what?
(a) The mind of God.
(b) The nature of infinity.
(c) If there is an end of time.
(d) When humanity will end.

4. If there is a grand unified theory, according to Hawking it would be the ultimate triumph of what?
(a) Human philosophy.
(b) Physics.
(c) Human reason.
(d) Science.

5. What does the letter C stand for in combinations of operations?
(a) Changing heavy particles for light particles.
(b) Changing particles for antiparticles.
(c) Changing matter particles for virtual particles.
(d) Changing positive particles for negative particles.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. During World War 1, Einstein was a professor in which city?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Haamburg.

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

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

11. The manuscript of Galileo's second major book was smuggled to a publisher located where?
(a) Holland.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

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

13. Gamma ray detection might be able to be used to detect what?
(a) White dwarfs.
(b) Pulsars.
(c) Quasars.
(d) Black holes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There are at least how many different arrows of time?

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

3. Why do researchers want to find black holes?

4. Einstein proposed who should have control over nuclear weaponry?

5. A possible solution to combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle is what?

(see the answer keys)

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