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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Predicting the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Honolulu and Maui.
(b) Paris and London.
(c) Berlin and Kohn.
(d) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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

3. What would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?
(a) Its heat would escape as well.
(b) Its temperature would rise.
(c) Its light would fragment.
(d) Its fragrance would emit.

4. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?
(a) A narrow scope.
(b) A time condition.
(c) A broad scope.
(d) A boundary.

5. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?
(a) Molecular physics.
(b) Quantum geology.
(c) Molecular biology.
(d) Quantum theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?

2. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?

3. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?

4. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

5. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?

(see the answer key)

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