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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 was everywhere when the universe was small?
(a) Atomic effects.
(b) Particle effects.
(c) Molecular effects.
(d) Quantum effects.

2. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A "Big Bang."
(c) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.
(d) A light was turned on.

3. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?
(a) We cannot say what time is.
(b) We cannot believe in time.
(c) We lose all negativity.
(d) We cannot say what space is.

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

5. What is a p = 2 brane?
(a) A wall.
(b) A geometrical unit.
(c) A surface.
(d) A ladder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?

3. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?

4. How did the universe initially expand?

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

(see the answer key)

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