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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. Even empty space is filled with what?
(a) Pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles.
(b) Pairs of particles to form dark matter.
(c) Pairs of protons and electrons.
(d) Pairs of positive and negative particles.

2. What book did Galileo publish, with the backing of the church's censors?
(a) Dialogue Concerning God and Science.
(b) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.
(c) Dialogue Concerning Humanity and the Universe.
(d) Dialogue Concerning the Relation of the World.

3. The publication of what book made Einstein declare, " If I were wrong, then one would've been enough."
(a) 100 Authors Against Einstein.
(b) 1000 Authors Against Einstein.
(c) 101 Authors Against Einstein.
(d) All Against Einstein.

4. If you use Hawking's model of the universe, how did the universe start?
(a) It started with a big bang.
(b) It started with the evaporation of other universes.
(c) It started with the collapse of a black hole in a previous universe.
(d) There was no beginning, it has always been there.

5. What is entropy?
(a) Amount of movement in a system.
(b) Amount of disintegration in a system.
(c) Amount of disorder in a system.
(d) Amount of velocity in a system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galileo was in constant conflict with what church?

2. How many questions are left unanswered prior to the development of math that incorporates quantum mechanics?

3. The manuscript of Galileo's second major book was smuggled to a publisher located where?

4. When Einstein said he was not coming back to Germany, what was the headline in the paper?

5. Hawking believes that scientists are too taken up with the "what" of the universe to ask which question?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Catholic Church allowed Galileo to write a book, but said that it must do what?

2. What punishment did the Inquisition order for Galileo?

3. When did the early ideas that the universe is deterministic fall apart?

4. Why did the Catholic church demand that Galileo stop writing about Copernican theory?

5. According to Hawking, people are naturally curious about what?

6. What is, according to the book, the most recent attempt to find a complete unified theory?

7. Why do physicists want to detect black holes?

8. What might have happened to the black holes left over from the early period of the Big Bang?

9. Real time is described in math using what?

10. Hawking says that when the universe loses all order, what will happen with life?

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