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

2. Who demonstrated that an atom is made up of electrons orbiting a nucleus made up of protons?

3. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?

4. Hawking is what type of physicist?

5. Stephen Hawking has what disease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one way that scientists determine that subatomic particles exist?

2. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

3. What is the uncertainty principle?

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

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

6. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?

7. Why can nothing move faster than the speed of light according to the theory of relativity?

8. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

9. What are the six varieties of quarks?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a simile and metaphor? Why does Hawking use similes and metaphors in his book? Using examples from the book, discuss which simile and metaphor are the most effective and why.

Essay Topic 2

What does the evolution of ideas since the days of mythology have to do with our world view today? Support your answer with examples from the text.

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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