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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. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) The theory of relativity.
(c) The theory of everything.
(d) Particle physics.

2. Light moves along what sort of lines?
(a) Curved.
(b) Wavy.
(c) Straight.
(d) Tilted.

3. How many quarks make up a proton or neutron?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1972.

5. What is one of the categories of force-carrying virtual protons?
(a) Gluons.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Stickons.
(d) Gravityions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the idea that a star can collapse and become a black hole?

2. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?

3. All the particles in the universe are what type of spin?

4. Who created the law of motion?

5. What force is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. Scientists start with observations and mathematics to answer the fundamental questions and then do what?

2. What is the difference between the Aristotelian approach to science and Galileo's approach?

3. What is the uncertainty principle?

4. What is one way that scientists determine that subatomic particles exist?

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

6. Why can nothing move faster than the speed of light according to the theory of relativity?

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

8. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

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

10. What are the six varieties of quarks?

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