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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. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?
(a) As if moved by magnets.
(b) As if moved by a plane.
(c) As if moved by a field.
(d) As if moved by gravity.

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

3. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) It made them struggle with their beliefs.
(b) It scared them.
(c) It mystified them.
(d) It delighted them.

4. How can half-determinism be preserved in relation to black holes?
(a) If subatomic travel is curved.
(b) If Strominger and Vafa's 1996 postulation is true.
(c) If Einstein's theory of general relativity is true.
(d) If space-time is directed by Planck lengths.

5. How can one find black holes?
(a) By seeking out the matter that orbits around a visible object.
(b) By finding the mass of everything invisible.
(c) By finding matter that orbits around a seemingly invisible object.
(d) By seeking out the matter that revolves around finite space.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

2. What partially restores determinism as a view?

3. What may be a law of nature?

4. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?

5. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?

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