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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Protecting the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) They disliked the idea.
(b) They were delighted.
(c) They were mystified.
(d) They were insanely horrified.

2. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) Max Jeoff.
(c) Max Wurst.
(d) Percy Max.

3. What barrier could wormholes break?
(a) The no-boundary barrier.
(b) The sound barrier.
(c) The weight barrier.
(d) The light barrier.

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

5. What is the name of Hawking's conjecture about the laws of physics and macroscopic time travel?
(a) The Chronology Protection Conjecture.
(b) The Chronological Spacetime Conjecture.
(c) The Timeline Protection Conjecture.
(d) The Theoretical Projection Conjecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?

2. What paradox does time travel generate?

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

4. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?

5. In what realm of physics is it important to consider the Schrodinger equation?

(see the answer key)

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