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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. What is a p = 1 brane?
(a) A plane.
(b) A box.
(c) A cone.
(d) A string.

2. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?
(a) Lucas and Marx.
(b) Lifshitz and Khalatnikov.
(c) Hawking and Penrose.
(d) Shalob and Khalatnikov.

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

4. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space are only observed.
(b) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(c) Time and space can't be observed.
(d) Time and space were not affected by events around them.

5. What does the universe's real-time history determine, according to Hawking and Hartle?
(a) Its historical fictions.
(b) Its fictional time history.
(c) Its third-eye time history.
(d) Its imaginary time history and vice versa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

2. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?

3. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?

4. What does relativity show about the speed of light?

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

(see the answer key)

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