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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 presence.
(c) A being.
(d) A mark.

2. What kind of theory do we not have yet that is essential to figuring out time travel?
(a) Gravitational theory.
(b) Feynmann's historical theory.
(c) Simmon's spacetime theory.
(d) Quantum gravity theory.

3. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?
(a) Present perfect and past special.
(b) Normal and placid.
(c) General and perfect.
(d) Special and general.

4. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Truman.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) President Grant.

5. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?
(a) An escape philosophy.
(b) A mature philosophy.
(c) A present philosophy.
(d) A contemporary philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would a civilization have to do to build a time machine?

2. What partially restores determinism as a view?

3. How does Hawking describe himself?

4. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend on?

5. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?

(see the answer key)

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