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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. Unlike children, scientists and philosophers, most adults use what to explain away the fundamental questions of the universe?
(a) Logic.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Religion.

2. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?
(a) Silicon transmisions.
(b) Cell phones.
(c) Liquid crystal displays.
(d) Microelectronics.

3. If we created a black hole by exploding a very large hydrogen bomb what would happen?
(a) The inner solar system would be destroyed.
(b) The entire world would be destroyed.
(c) The sun would be destroyed.
(d) The entire solar system would be destroyed.

4. Who proposed the idea that there are such things called quanta?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Roger Primrose.
(c) Stephen Hawking.
(d) Max Plank.

5. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?
(a) Because it gives room for the existence of heaven and hell.
(b) Because it gives room for the Biblical account of creation.
(c) Because it gives room for the existence of other worlds.
(d) Because it gives room for the existence of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the universe, objects move in what type of direction?

2. A black hole has zero what?

3. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?

4. The theory of quantum mechanics best describes what world?

5. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are quanta?

3. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?

4. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?

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

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

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

8. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and predictions?

9. What is the uncertainty principle?

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

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