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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 theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?
(a) Pacificism.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Relativity.
(d) Specifism.

2. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(b) Berlin and Kohn.
(c) Honolulu and Maui.
(d) Paris and London.

3. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?
(a) Laws are never fallible.
(b) Laws are always fallible.
(c) Most laws need to be rewritten.
(d) Laws should remain constant in the view of all observers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Einstein wish people to abandon concerning time?

2. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?

3. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?

4. When was Einstein born?

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

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