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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Brief History of Relativity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?
(a) Light is dependent on motion.
(b) Light is independent of motion.
(c) Light is independent of time.
(d) Light is dependent on time.

2. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Percy Max.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) Max Wurst.
(d) Max Jeoff.

3. How many articles did Einstein pen that rocketed him to the top of the scientific community?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

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

5. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?
(a) Allen Walton and Zion Greenlee.
(b) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.
(c) Allen Walton and Roger Penrose.
(d) Stephen Hawking and Matthew Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein receive his degree?

2. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?

3. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?

4. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

5. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

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