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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Einstein's theories, what is the nature of space?
(a) It has missing points.
(b) It is a straight line.
(c) It curves.
(d) It is a flat plane.

2. How do today's professional astronomers search for supernovae?
(a) Using classical mathematical predictions.
(b) With digital cameras and computers.
(c) Hiring interns to peer through telescopes 24/7.
(d) In collaboration with astrologers.

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

4. When radiation was first discovered, it was sometimes added to:
(a) Toothpastes and laxatives.
(b) Gasoline and alcohol.
(c) Stews and casseroles.
(d) Drinking water.

5. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?
(a) 36.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 42.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fred Hoyle came up with the term "Big Bang" while trying to:

2. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?

3. In a span of just 20 years, the number of known moons in the solar system grew from:

4. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:

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

(see the answer key)

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