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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. Where did Einstein receive his degree?
(a) The Federal Polytechnic School.
(b) Technical Teaching School.
(c) Simmons Seminary.
(d) The Seattle School of Law.

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

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

4. When was Einstein born?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1798.

5. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Farside Project.
(b) The Chicago Project.
(c) The Brooklyn Project.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

2. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

3. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?

4. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?

5. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?

(see the answer key)

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