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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawking resist believing in?
(a) Never-ending dimensions.
(b) One dimension.
(c) Ten dimensions.
(d) Extra dimensions.

2. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.
(b) A "Big Bang."
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A light was turned on.

3. What is one of the twentieth century's greatest discoveries?
(a) The universe is expanding.
(b) The earth will be uninhabitable in fifty years.
(c) The universe is collapsing.
(d) There are extraterrestrials.

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

5. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?
(a) Colloborating on a second effort.
(b) Finishing the job in two weeks.
(c) Formulating the appropriate equations.
(d) Going to the SpaceTime conference of 1954.

6. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?
(a) Market theory.
(b) Gravitational spin.
(c) The universe.
(d) All philosophy.

7. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?
(a) A broad scope.
(b) A boundary.
(c) A narrow scope.
(d) A time condition.

8. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?
(a) Maxwell's unification of magnetism, energy, and electricity.
(b) Newton's law of gravity.
(c) Popper's theory of demystification.
(d) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.

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

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

11. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) It mystified them.
(b) It made them struggle with their beliefs.
(c) It scared them.
(d) It delighted them.

12. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?
(a) Molecular physics.
(b) Quantum geology.
(c) Molecular biology.
(d) Quantum theory.

13. What is a p = 1 brane?
(a) A cone.
(b) A string.
(c) A plane.
(d) A box.

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

15. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?
(a) E = mc2.
(b) G = mc3.
(c) G = cm2.
(d) E = cm3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What may the no boundary condition imply?

2. Where did Einstein accept a position?

3. What is vacuum energy's force inverse to?

4. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

5. Where did Einstein receive his degree?

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