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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After noticing an unusual phenomenon with uranium salts and a photographic plate, Henri Becquerel asked one of his graduate students to investigate the matter. Who was this student?
(a) René Just Haüy.
(b) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(c) Louise Désirée Lorieux.
(d) Marie Curie.

2. Fred Hoyle came up with the term "Big Bang" while trying to:
(a) Show how life evolved on Earth.
(b) Simplify how the universe came to exist.
(c) Prove the theory.
(d) Disprove the theory.

3. In 2003, NASA came up with an estimated age of the universe. What was it?
(a) 103.5 million years.
(b) 35 million years.
(c) 731 trillion years.
(d) 13.7 billion years.

4. Our universe is at least how many light-years wide?
(a) 5 trillion.
(b) 100 billion.
(c) 350 trillion.
(d) 50 million trillions.

5. How far away is Proxima Centauri from Earth?
(a) 700 million times farther than Mars.
(b) 120 million times farther than our sun.
(c) 390 million times farther than Venus.
(d) 100 million times farther than our moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many stars can be seen from Earth using a two-inch telescope?

2. The Geiger counter is a:

3. Scientists are aware of at least how many galaxies in the universe?

4. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?

5. According to the Reverend William Buckland, the biblical reference to "in the beginning" with regards to the formation of Earth could refer to:

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