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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 can Einstein's General Relativity be combined with?
(a) Molecular geology.
(b) Multiple histories.
(c) Atomic philosophy.
(d) Quantum biology.

2. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?
(a) His brother's sister Mary.
(b) His sister's friend Eleanor.
(c) His friend Margaret.
(d) His cousin Elsa.

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

4. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?
(a) Berlin and Kohn.
(b) Paris and London.
(c) Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(d) Honolulu and Maui.

5. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?
(a) Space, time, and reality.
(b) Time, ciphers, and values.
(c) Morals, virtues, and predilections.
(d) Love, warp speed, and imaginary time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the twentieth century's greatest discoveries?

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

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

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

5. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

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