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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: The Smoking Gun, Experimental Signatures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which particle was spin first discovered?
(a) The electron.
(b) The proton.
(c) The neutron.
(d) The photon.

2. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of gravity?
(a) The graviton.
(b) The Calabi-Yau particle.
(c) The Einstein boson.
(d) The gravino.

3. In Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2, what does "c" represent?
(a) The speed of the object.
(b) The object's density.
(c) The frequency of light.
(d) The speed of light.

4. String theory claims that super particles _____.
(a) Are the only non-string particles.
(b) Are massless.
(c) Come in pairs.
(d) Do not exist.

5. Which of the following is true regarding experimental evidence for super particles?
(a) They have been observed for a long time, and have only recently been identified.
(b) They have been observed in multiple experiments.
(c) They have not been observed.
(d) They cannot be observed experimentally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of the weak force?

2. The wave-like nature of the electron means that after a collision, _____.

3. Einstein's equation, E=mc^2, states that which of the following are equivalent?

4. Quantum chromodynamics concerns quantum mechanics and ____.

5. Which of the following is true regarding our current knowledge of the Calabi-Yau space?

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