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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. How far away is our sun from the earth in terms of light?
(a) 8 light minutes.
(b) 9 light months.
(c) 8 light months.
(d) 9 light minutes.

2. What force is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Force.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Magnetism.

3. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Helium.
(c) Liquid.
(d) Gaseous.

4. The writer of the Introduction hints that time might be able to move in what direction?
(a) Sideways.
(b) Forwards.
(c) Backwards.
(d) A repeat cycle.

5. From what location was the Introduction written?
(a) Ithaca, NY
(b) Ithaca, NJ
(c) Ithaca, CA
(d) Ithaca, AZ

Short Answer Questions

1. Galaxies contain what?

2. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?

3. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?

4. The universe has how many dimensions?

5. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

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

5. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

6. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

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

8. What model of the atom persisted until the 1960's?

9. What was the Ancient Greek view of the universe?

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

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