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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 thought to expand at an accelerating rate in our universe?
(a) Matter.
(b) Light.
(c) Reach.
(d) Scope.

2. Why is it important that the sky is dark?
(a) It demonstrates that light hasn't reached every point in the universe.
(b) It demonstrates that the sky is more inclined to darker tones.
(c) It demonstrates that the dark extends further than the light.
(d) It demonstrates that the universe must have a light switch.

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

4. When did Einstein receive the Nobel prize?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1943.

5. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?
(a) Pacificism.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Specifism.
(d) Relativity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Einstein born?

3. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?

4. What does Hawking resist believing in?

5. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?

(see the answer key)

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