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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. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?
(a) Neptune.
(b) Mars.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Saturn.

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

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

4. To observe black holes you must observe what?
(a) Their mass.
(b) Their cause.
(c) Their effects.
(d) Their distance from the nearest star.

5. Hawking is what type of physicist?
(a) Astro.
(b) Particle.
(c) Micro.
(d) Theoretical.

Short Answer Questions

1. A black hole results from a large star using up what type of fuel?

2. What does a particle with 0 spin look like?

3. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?

4. A black hole has zero what?

5. Stephen Hawking has what disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the uncertainty principle?

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

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

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