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

2. When were strings regarded as insufficient?
(a) After 1988.
(b) Before 1988.
(c) Before 1985.
(d) After 1985.

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

4. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) That Newton's model was disproportionate.
(b) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.
(c) This this implied time was finite.
(d) That this implied time was infinite.

5. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Grant.
(c) President Johnson.
(d) President Truman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Einstein born?

2. Who developed quantum theory?

3. What do models based on imaginary time make?

4. What is a p = 2 brane?

5. What does time have?

(see the answer key)

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