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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shape of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Einstein move in 1914?
(a) Austria.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) New York.

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

3. What does TOE stand for?
(a) Theory of Everything.
(b) Theory on Ether.
(c) Theory of Excellence.
(d) Theory of Everywhere.

4. What do models based on imaginary time make?
(a) Good predictions.
(b) False predictions.
(c) Innumerable falsities.
(d) Blanket superstitions.

5. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?
(a) Generate a proof.
(b) Curve space.
(c) Mark time accurately.
(d) Build another theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were people's views of space-time changed because of Einstein's work?

2. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?

3. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?

4. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

(see the answer key)

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