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

2. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Chicago Project.
(b) The Farside Project.
(c) The Brooklyn Project.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

3. Where did Einstein receive his degree?
(a) The Seattle School of Law.
(b) Technical Teaching School.
(c) The Federal Polytechnic School.
(d) Simmons Seminary.

4. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?
(a) The amount of matter in the universe.
(b) The amount of thought in the universe.
(c) The amount of space in the universe.
(d) The amount of time in the universe.

5. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.
(b) That Newton's model was disproportionate.
(c) That this implied time was infinite.
(d) This this implied time was finite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?

2. Where did Einstein accept a position?

3. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?

4. What sort of lengths do P-branes have?

5. What does the universe's real-time history determine, according to Hawking and Hartle?

(see the answer key)

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