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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 many black holes are estimated per cubic light year of space?
(a) 300.
(b) 450.
(c) 400.
(d) 350.
2. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?
(a) Movement.
(b) Expansion of the universe.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Collapse of the universe.
3. Einstein signed a letter to what President urging him to take discovery of the nuclear bomb seriously?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Herbert Hoover.
4. In what year was Einstein's vocal support of the Zionist cause recognized?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1949.
5. What year did Galileo die?
(a) 1640.
(b) 1646.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1644.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who discovered the equation that governs the electron?
2. What was the name of Galileo's book that had to be smuggled to a publisher?
3. What is one of Hawking's three possibilities for the unification of physics theory?
4. What is the fate of black holes according to Hawking's model of the universe?
5. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?
Short Essay Questions
1. When did the early ideas that the universe is deterministic fall apart?
2. What might have happened to the black holes left over from the early period of the Big Bang?
3. Using imaginary numbers allows time to do what?
4. What is ironic about Einstein's involvement in U.S. politics?
5. What is the estimated concentration of black holes?
6. Hawking concludes that life is only possible during the expansion phase of the universe for what reason?
7. What is one theory about what happens when particles match up with their anti-particles on the event horizon of a black hole?
8. According to Hawking, people are naturally curious about what?
9. What is Einstein's general theory of relativity's famous equation?
10. What are the three possibilities Hawking sees for the unification of physics theory?
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