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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. The uncertainty principle says that certain pairs of quantities (like position and velocity of a particle) cannot be determined with what?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Accuracy.
(c) Relational theory.
(d) Experiments.

2. Einstein signed a letter to what President urging him to take discovery of the nuclear bomb seriously?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

3. Laplace, at the beginning of the 19th century, postulated what idea?
(a) Scientific communication.
(b) Scientific experiments.
(c) Scientific determinism.
(d) Scientific knowledge.

4. Black holes can capture matter particles and what other type of particles?
(a) Gluons.
(b) Virtual.
(c) Gamma.
(d) Quarks.

5. Einstein was offered the presidency of which country?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Austria.
(c) Israel.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Superstring theory lacks what kind of evidence?

3. If there is a grand unified theory, according to Hawking it would be the ultimate triumph of what?

4. What is the purpose of an arrow of time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the psychological arrow of time represent?

2. What is the estimated concentration of black holes?

3. Einstein preferred what over the fleeting nature of politics?

4. What does a weak form of the anthropic principle hold for the view of the universe?

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

6. What punishment did the Inquisition order for Galileo?

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

8. If quantum mechanics is used, then the universe has always done what?

9. Why do physicists want to detect black holes?

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

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