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

2. What sort of lengths do P-branes have?
(a) Circular lengths.
(b) Horizonal lengths.
(c) Directional lengths.
(d) Vertical lengths.

3. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Particle accelerator theories.
(b) Symmetric movement theories.
(c) Supergravity theories.
(d) Supertheoric partner theories.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does time have?

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

4. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?

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

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