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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 is Feynman's history idea called?
(a) Multiple history idea.
(b) Fictional history idea.
(c) Imaginary history idea.
(d) Singular history idea.

2. What does Hawking think one can do to positive vacuum energy?
(a) Square it.
(b) Divide it.
(c) Ration it.
(d) Move it.

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

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

5. How did the universe initially expand?
(a) Rapidly and then more slowly.
(b) Increasingly quick.
(c) Fully and then not at all.
(d) Markedly slow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the size of biological brains limited by?

2. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?

3. What is doubling its computational power every eighteen months?

4. What can Penrose and Hawking's machinery help them study?

5. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

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