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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Science has become too _____, so that normal people and philosophers cannot understand it.
(a) Abstract.
(b) Technical and mathematical.
(c) Removed from reality.
(d) Complex.

2. Which of the following is not an arrow of time recognized by Hawking's book?
(a) Thermodynamic.
(b) Psychological.
(c) Cosmological.
(d) Physiological.

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

4. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?
(a) We Lost the Greatest Mathematician of our Time.
(b) Good News from Einstein - He's Not Coming Back.
(c) Professor Einstein Stays Away to Save His Life.
(d) Good-Bye Bad Science - Einstein remains in America.

5. Einstein was what nationality by birth?
(a) American.
(b) Israeli.
(c) German.
(d) Russian.

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

7. More than his support for Copernicus, what of Galileo's was considered the genesis of modern physics?
(a) His work on proving Copernicanism.
(b) His first major book.
(c) His second major book.
(d) His development of mathematical formulas.

8. 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 a big bang.
(d) It started with the evaporation of other universes.

9. Superstring theory lacks what kind of evidence?
(a) Experimental.
(b) Observational.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Theoretical.

10. Einstein signed a letter to what President urging him to take discovery of the nuclear bomb seriously?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

11. What is one thing particles do when they enter a black hole?
(a) Become very dense.
(b) Cause the emission of other particles.
(c) Stop emitting light.
(d) Become destroyed.

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

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

14. Hawking argues that randomness must exist to a certain degree due to what?
(a) The theory of relativity.
(b) The ability to run time backwards.
(c) The uncertainty principle.
(d) The lack of knowledge.

15. What does chemistry allow us to calculate?
(a) The reactions of substances.
(b) The effect of radiation on a human body.
(c) The usefulness of medication.
(d) The interactions of atoms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The publication of what book made Einstein declare, " If I were wrong, then one would've been enough."

3. 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?

4. To illustrate the concept of disorder in a system, Hawking uses what example in Chapter 9?

5. Galileo belied that the earth did what?

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