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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. Infinities in partial theories can be canceled out through a process known as what?
(a) Restructuring.
(b) Rebalancing.
(c) Recontouring.
(d) Renormalization.

2. The man who was convicted of trying to murder Einstein was fined how much?
(a) Six dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) He was thrown in jail, not fined.
(d) He wasn't fined at all.

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

4. Einstein said that politics are for the present but equations are for how long?
(a) Forever.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Infinity.
(d) Longer than politics.

5. The manuscript of Galileo's second major book was smuggled to a publisher located where?
(a) Holland.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. A possible solution to combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle is what?

2. Galileo belied that the earth did what?

3. Hawking argues that randomness must exist to a certain degree due to what?

4. What might escape from a black hole?

5. A closed string is defined as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three possibilities Hawking sees for the unification of physics theory?

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

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

4. String theory implies what about other dimensions?

5. What is one theory about what happens when particles match up with their anti-particles on the event horizon of a black hole?

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

7. When and why did Einstein become a pacifist?

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

9. Using imaginary numbers allows time to do what?

10. When you combine the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, what does that mean for the universe?

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