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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?
(a) To accurately describe the fate of the universe.
(b) To accurately describe the very small and the very large.
(c) To accurately describe future events.
(d) To accurately calculate observations.

2. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?
(a) Different only if spun half way around.
(b) Different after It makes two full rotations.
(c) Identical in all directions.
(d) Different from different directions.

3. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1925.

4. The universe has how many dimensions?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

5. What is one of the varieties of quarks?
(a) Odd.
(b) Quirky.
(c) Random.
(d) Strange.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gravity acts only upon what type of particles?

2. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?

3. In what year did Edwin Hubble discover galaxies outside of our own?

4. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?

5. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What determines whether a star can become a black hole?

2. What will happen if the expansion of the universe stops?

3. When looking at the sky on a clear night what do you see and how far away is it?

4. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?

5. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

6. What is one implication of the theory of relativity?

7. The mathematical formulas that result from a scientific model of the universe must do what?

8. What are quanta?

9. Why might our present day ways of thinking about the universe seem ridiculous in the future?

10. What could cause the expansion of the universe to go on forever?

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