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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shape of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can one not curve space without also curving?
(a) Functions.
(b) Time.
(c) Spacetime.
(d) Gravity.

2. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?
(a) The philosophy of science advanced by Karl Popper.
(b) The scientific work of Isaac Newton.
(c) The work of mathematician Karl Popper.
(d) The philosophy of George Markus.

3. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space were not affected by events around them.
(b) Time and space are only observed.
(c) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(d) Time and space can't be observed.

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

5. By what year was Einstein famous?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1907.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Einstein receive his degree?

3. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?

4. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?

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

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