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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 suggest concerning the speed of light?
(a) Light is dependent on time.
(b) Light is independent of time.
(c) Light is dependent on motion.
(d) Light is independent of motion.

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

3. What does supersymmetry imply?
(a) That strings have a spin property.
(b) That particles had a spin property.
(c) That molecules have a spin property.
(d) That gamma rays have a spin property.

4. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(b) Berlin and Kohn.
(c) Paris and London.
(d) Honolulu and Maui.

5. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) It delighted them.
(b) It made them struggle with their beliefs.
(c) It scared them.
(d) It mystified them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?

2. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?

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

4. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?

5. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?

(see the answer key)

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