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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else can we not see, besides black holes?
(a) Black matter.
(b) Photon matter.
(c) Light waves.
(d) Clear matter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Hawking calls the possibility of the universe collapsing "the big ____?"
(a) Smash.
(b) Explosion.
(c) Bang.
(d) Crunch.

9. Why did the universe not collapse back on itself shortly after the big bang?
(a) There was too much acceleration.
(b) Gravity interfered.
(c) We don't know.
(d) Particles became real and less dense.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Using low level radiation to detect black holes is in what stage of research?
(a) Exploratory.
(b) Testing.
(c) Analytical.
(d) Theory.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. If you use Hawking's model of the universe, how did the universe start?

4. What is one of Hawking's three possibilities for the unification of physics theory?

5. What might escape from a black hole?

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