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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Brane New World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?
(a) Special and general.
(b) Present perfect and past special.
(c) Normal and placid.
(d) General and perfect.

2. What is one reason Hawking takes multiple dimensions seriously?
(a) Conclusive relationships between plane models.
(b) Unexpected relationships between multiple dimensions.
(c) Unexpected relationships between various string models.
(d) Expected relationships between diverse string thories.

3. What kind of fluctuations do we have to consider to answer whether or not time travel is possible?
(a) Quantum fluctuations.
(b) Geological fluctuations.
(c) Spacetime fluctuations.
(d) Spatial fluctuations.

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

5. Where did Einstein move in 1914?
(a) London.
(b) Austria.
(c) New York.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. If branes go on forever, what may be siphoned off of the universe?

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

3. What kind of probability must this universe generate to produce a macroscopic time loop?

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

5. What kind of viewpoint is Hawking described as having?

(see the answer key)

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