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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do models based on imaginary time make?
(a) Blanket superstitions.
(b) Good predictions.
(c) False predictions.
(d) Innumerable falsities.

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

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

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

5. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?
(a) Lifshitz and Hawking.
(b) Shalob and Khalatnikov.
(c) Popper and Newkowitz.
(d) Penrose and Hawking.

6. When were strings regarded as insufficient?
(a) Before 1988.
(b) Before 1985.
(c) After 1988.
(d) After 1985.

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

8. If there is a low amount of matter in the universe what will happen?
(a) The universe will never expand.
(b) The universe will stop expanding in two span.
(c) The universe will expand forever.
(d) The universe will explode.

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

10. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings depends on?
(a) The amount of matter in the universe.
(b) The amount of space in the universe.
(c) The amount of thought in the universe.
(d) The amount of time in the universe.

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

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

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

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

15. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?
(a) Black holes can be found within large collections of stars.
(b) Collections of stars always have two megastars.
(c) Super novas are common in collections of stars.
(d) They are sometimes red-shifted and blue-shifted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it important that the sky is dark?

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

3. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?

4. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

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

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