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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. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?
(a) Harvey Dent.
(b) George Markowitz.
(c) Professor Marx.
(d) Georg Reimann.

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

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

4. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?
(a) Finishing the job in two weeks.
(b) Going to the SpaceTime conference of 1954.
(c) Formulating the appropriate equations.
(d) Colloborating on a second effort.

5. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?
(a) E = cm3.
(b) G = mc3.
(c) G = cm2.
(d) E = mc2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein receive his degree?

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

3. What two things are considered capable of shaping space-time, according to Einstein?

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

5. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

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