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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?
(a) Build another theory.
(b) Curve space.
(c) Generate a proof.
(d) Mark time accurately.

6. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Farside Project.
(b) The Chicago Project.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The Brooklyn Project.

7. 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.

8. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) That Newton's model was disproportionate.
(b) This this implied time was finite.
(c) That this implied time was infinite.
(d) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.

9. What can quantum theory represent?
(a) The dimensions of spacetime.
(b) The model of a timewarp.
(c) The curves of space and time.
(d) The shaping of space and time.

10. What does Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?
(a) Mass is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(b) Energy is converted into matter from gravitational fields.
(c) Matter is converted into weight.
(d) Matter is converted into energy from periscopal fields.

11. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?
(a) Lifshitz and Khalatnikov.
(b) Hawking and Penrose.
(c) Shalob and Khalatnikov.
(d) Lucas and Marx.

12. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?
(a) In terms of scientific arguments.
(b) In terms of philosophy.
(c) In terms of scientific laws.
(d) In terms of religious theories.

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

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

15. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Particle accelerator theories.
(b) Supertheoric partner theories.
(c) Symmetric movement theories.
(d) Supergravity theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?

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

3. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

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

5. How are galaxies distributed through space?

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