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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Universe in a Nutshell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) They were mystified.
(b) They were insanely horrified.
(c) They disliked the idea.
(d) They were delighted.

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

4. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?
(a) A time condition.
(b) A boundary.
(c) A narrow scope.
(d) A broad scope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?

2. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?

3. What does Hawking resist believing in?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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