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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William Herschel became most famous for the discovery of which planet?
(a) Uranus.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Mars.
(d) Venus.

2. Where was Charles Darwin from?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

3. According to the author, there may have been a short period during which the universe expanded more rapidly than before or after. This concept is referred to as what theory?
(a) The special theory of relativitiy.
(b) The general theory of relativity.
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) The inflationary universe theory.

4. When did Protestant clergyman John Wilkins speak of man's settling on the moon?
(a) 1638.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1895.

5. According to the author in Chapter 19, what has shown that the same matter and elements exist everywhere?
(a) Quantum physics.
(b) Astrophysics.
(c) Black holes.
(d) Darwinian evolution.

6. What theorized that the spiral and elliptical nebulae were clouds of gas that were forming new stars?
(a) The "nebular hypothesis."
(b) The "island universe."
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The Tychonic system.

7. Quantum physics first emerged when who theorized that energy came in discrete units called quanta?
(a) Isaac Newtwon.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Max Planck.

8. Who wrote in fourth century BC that "to consider the earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow"?
(a) Emanuel Kant.
(b) John Harrison.
(c) Metrodorus.
(d) Aristotle.

9. The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of what century?
(a) 19th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 15th.

10. What is a member of a class of very luminous variable stars?
(a) Dark matter.
(b) Cepheid.
(c) Parallax.
(d) Micrometer.

11. The first step in the exploration of intergalactic space was taken by what philosopher?
(a) Jean Richer.
(b) John Harrison.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Emanuel Kant.

12. Who published a paper in 1917 which provided evidence that the universe was expanding?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Jean Richer.
(c) Emanuel Kant.
(d) Vesto Slipher.

13. When was "Evolution of the Universe" written?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1985.

14. What is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Particle physics.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) Triangulation.

15. Who was the first physicist to conceptualize the vacuum genesis?
(a) Edward Tryon.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Joseph Fraunhofer.
(d) James Keeler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Darwin based his hypothesis that the world was old and always changing on the works of whom?

2. When was Albert Einstein born?

3. Who worked under George Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, as described by the author in Chapter 9?

4. The man who associated the red-shift of the galaxies with Einstein's relativity was a Belgian priest and mathematician named what?

5. What was the name of Charles Darwin's grandfather who had written the book, "Zoonomia"?

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