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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. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.
(b) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.
(c) Popper's theory of demystification.
(d) Newton's law of gravity.

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

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 inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(c) Time and space are only observed.
(d) Time and space can't be observed.

4. What does time have?
(a) A being.
(b) A mark.
(c) A shape.
(d) A presence.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?

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

4. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

5. By what year was Einstein famous?

(see the answer key)

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