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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:
(a) Clothes.
(b) Swords.
(c) Cathedrals.
(d) Eyeglasses.

2. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?
(a) The salt crystals melted into the plate.
(b) An emission from the salts ruined the plate.
(c) The plate became magnetic.
(d) The plate rusted.

3. In the 1700s, people were finding holes in theories. For example, if the thoughts on erosion were completely correct, then:
(a) Sand would be ground to fine powder.
(b) Icebergs would have eroded long ago.
(c) All farmland would have been washed away.
(d) There would be no mountains, only smooth hills.

4. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:
(a) On January 1, 10,000 B.C.
(b) Millions of years ago.
(c) On October 23, 4004 B.C.
(d) In an instant.

5. Which of the following is not part of an atom?
(a) Neutron.
(b) Morton.
(c) Proton.
(d) Electron.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sir Isaac Newton wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy," which explains his laws of what?

2. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:

3. According to the Caltech physicist Richard Feynman, the most important discovery ever made is what?

4. When radiation was first discovered, it was sometimes added to:

5. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?

(see the answer key)

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