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

2. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?
(a) Why the universe is so big.
(b) Why the universe is so small.
(c) Why the universe is the way it is.
(d) Why the universe will end.

3. How did the universe initially expand?
(a) Markedly slow.
(b) Fully and then not at all.
(c) Increasingly quick.
(d) Rapidly and then more slowly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does supersymmetry imply?

2. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

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

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

5. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?

(see the answer key)

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