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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do string theories most notably lack?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Dimensions.
(c) Infinities.
(d) Proofs.

3. By what year was Einstein famous?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1907.

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

5. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Grant.
(c) President Truman.
(d) President Johnson.

6. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?
(a) Four-dimensional space-time.
(b) Three-dimensional physics.
(c) Five-dimensional warp speed.
(d) Two-dimensional planes.

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

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

9. What sort of lengths do P-branes have?
(a) Circular lengths.
(b) Directional lengths.
(c) Vertical lengths.
(d) Horizonal lengths.

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

11. What is intuitive to think about the "ground state" or stationary state of an object?
(a) This object would have multiple energies.
(b) This object would have zero energy.
(c) This object would have two energies.
(d) This object would thrive in a black hole.

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

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

14. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?
(a) Allen Walton and Zion Greenlee.
(b) Stephen Hawking and Matthew Williams.
(c) Allen Walton and Roger Penrose.
(d) Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.

15. 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) Hawking's harangue on black hole theory.
(d) Popper's theory of demystification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?

2. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

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

4. What did Einstein wish people to abandon concerning time?

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

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