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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Our Future?, Star Trek or Not?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does time have?
(a) A shape.
(b) A mark.
(c) A being.
(d) A presence.

2. What are singularities?
(a) Time structures that appear infinitely small.
(b) Centers that appear finitely dense.
(c) Timepieces of infinitely dense space.
(d) Centers that appear infinitely small and dense.

3. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?
(a) We cannot say what time is.
(b) We cannot believe in time.
(c) We lose all negativity.
(d) We cannot say what space is.

4. For nearly all of history, what has moved forward?
(a) The Earth.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Energy.
(d) Spacetime.

5. What does Hawking resist believing in?
(a) Ten dimensions.
(b) One dimension.
(c) Never-ending dimensions.
(d) Extra dimensions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

2. What kind of evolution is described as random?

3. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?

4. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?

5. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?

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