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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Groups of atoms create what?

2. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?

3. What is the name of the particles that make up light?

4. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?

5. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do physicists of Stephen Hawking's caliber not make assumptions about the nature of the universe?

2. What is one implication of the theory of relativity?

3. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

4. When looking at the sky on a clear night what do you see and how far away is it?

5. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?

6. Light behaves in which two manners?

7. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

8. What is the uncertainty principle?

9. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

10. What will happen if the expansion of the universe stops?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Based on your reading of the book, why does humanity try to understand the universe and what progress has humanity made in understanding it? Please support your answers with examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

A thesis is a main point, or argument, that an essay or book is intended to support. If there was a thesis for this book, what would it be and why? Please cite examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss each of the dimensions of the universe and their effect on humanity. Use the text to support your answers.

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