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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. What is one thing particles do when they enter a black hole?
(a) Become destroyed.
(b) Stop emitting light.
(c) Become very dense.
(d) Cause the emission of other particles.

2. In what year was Einstein's vocal support of the Zionist cause recognized?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1949.

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

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

5. Some particles might match up with their anti-particles at what point?
(a) When they get crushed in a black hole.
(b) Before they enter a black hole.
(c) When they fall into a black hole.
(d) When they escape a black hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Black holes are speculated to be clumped together due to what?

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

3. What theory says that the universe has always existed and always will?

4. A closed string is defined as what?

5. What does chemistry allow us to calculate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Using imaginary numbers allows time to do what?

5. Real time is described in math using what?

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

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

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

9. What is the difference between string theory and the other theories?

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

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