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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. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?
(a) Space, time, and reality.
(b) Morals, virtues, and predilections.
(c) Love, warp speed, and imaginary time.
(d) Time, ciphers, and values.

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

3. What is a p = 2 brane?
(a) A ladder.
(b) A surface.
(c) A geometrical unit.
(d) A wall.

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

5. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(b) Time and space are only observed.
(c) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(d) Time and space can't be observed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?

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

3. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?

4. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?

5. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

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