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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What property does an external black hole have?
(a) The minimum possible radiation.
(b) The maximum possible mass for its charge and spin.
(c) The minimum possible mass for its charge and spin.
(d) The maximum possible internal temperature.

2. How does the number of extra "curled up" dimensions affect the vibration of strings?
(a) More dimensions provide more ways to vibrate.
(b) More dimensions allow for string with length in more than one direction.
(c) String vibration is not affected by additional dimensions.
(d) More dimensions require more energy for the same vibrational pattern.

3. Which of the following is one of the difficulties in observing super particles?
(a) They do not interact with either matter or light.
(b) They are too massive to be observed in a particle accelerator.
(c) They are massless.
(d) They are incredibly rare, and pass through most matter.

4. Which of the following is true regarding the tearing of space-time according to string theory?
(a) It can tear under special circumstances.
(b) It cannot tear.
(c) It is not known if space-time can tear.
(d) A tear would destroy the universe.

5. Which of the following is true regarding tears in space time occurring in normal three-dimensional space?
(a) It has been proven that they can occur.
(b) It is unknown whether or not they can occur.
(c) They cannot occur.
(d) Such tears have been observed in particle accelerators.

6. At what scale of length is quantum geometry necessitated?
(a) The Riemann scale.
(b) Nanometers.
(c) Cosmological scales.
(d) The Planck length.

7. How many family groups are the elementary particles divided into?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

8. By what factor is the minimum mass of a wrapped string in determined?
(a) The string's winding number.
(b) The size of the circular dimension it is wrapped around.
(c) The vacuum energy of the dimension it is wrapped around.
(d) The string's Planck tension.

9. Who provided the computer programming to process the results of the Morrison-Greene experiment?
(a) Yau.
(b) Aspinwall.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Tian.

10. According to the standard model of the big bang, which of the following is true of the four fundamental forces during the first moments of the universe?
(a) They were all melded together.
(b) They were divided into eight unidentified forces.
(c) They were "evaporated" in the high temperature, and didn't interact with space-time.
(d) They were not uniform throughout space.

11. When a black hole's entropy increases, which of its characteristics increases as well?
(a) The surface area of its event horizon.
(b) Its electrical charge.
(c) Its spin.
(d) Its nuclear-weak force charge.

12. About how long after the big bang were stars formed?
(a) One thousand years.
(b) One hundred billion years.
(c) One billion years.
(d) 50 billion years.

13. When a Calabi-Yau space collapses, it comes back as a space. What distinction does it have?
(a) It has no shielding against tears in space-time.
(b) It has one fewer dimensions.
(c) It has one less hole.
(d) It has mirror-symmetry with its old shape.

14. What is one of the difficulties in determining the shape of the Calabi-Yau space?
(a) The shape has an unequal number of real and imaginary dimensions.
(b) No field of mathematics exists to support it.
(c) The equations governing its shape are too complex.
(d) There are an infinite number of unknowns in its governing equation.

15. Tears in space-time are technically termed _____.
(a) Discrete abrogation events.
(b) Zero-point alignments.
(c) Flops.
(d) Topology-changing transitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is true about the background microwave radiation of the universe?

2. What problem of cosmology was the inflationary model created to deal with?

3. What is a string's winding number?

4. Under string theory, which of the following is true regarding extra dimensions?

5. Which of the following is true regarding the tearing of space-time according to general relativity?

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