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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. Which of the following is true regarding the mass and spin of a pair of superpartners?
(a) They have unrelated masses, and their spins differ by 1.
(b) They have the same mass and spin.
(c) They have the same mass, and their spins differ by 1/2.
(d) Their masses and spins are not related.

2. Which of the following best describes a fermion?
(a) A messenger particle for a force.
(b) The super-partner of a proton.
(c) The supersymmetric version of a proton.
(d) A particle of matter.

3. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of the strong force?
(a) The hadron.
(b) The muon.
(c) The gluon.
(d) The baryon.

4. Quantum physics began with the study of the energy inside a heated, closed container, such as an oven. The problem with theories at the time was that they predicted that _____.
(a) The oven can store more energy the smaller it is.
(b) The oven contains infinite energy.
(c) The oven contains no energy.
(d) The oven can only store energy if it has no mass.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a correct statement, based on the theory of special relativity?

2. In quantum mechanics, what is symmetry breaking?

3. What spin do all particles of matter have?

4. Which of the follow best describes a boson?

5. Which of the following did Einstein considered time?

(see the answer key)

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