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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it important that the sky is dark?
(a) It demonstrates that the universe must have a light switch.
(b) It demonstrates that light hasn't reached every point in the universe.
(c) It demonstrates that the dark extends further than the light.
(d) It demonstrates that the sky is more inclined to darker tones.

2. What did Einstein resist to admit that general relativity implied if all the stars died?
(a) The universe would never have existed.
(b) The universe would collapse and recreate itself.
(c) The universe would never die.
(d) The universe would come to an end.

3. What can we not coherently ask about the way the universe is?
(a) Why the universe will end.
(b) Why the universe is so big.
(c) Why the universe is so small.
(d) Why the universe is the way it is.

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

5. What two things are considered capable of shaping space-time, according to Einstein?
(a) Gravity and space.
(b) Matter and weight.
(c) Mass and energy.
(d) Time and conclusion.

6. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?
(a) Harvey Dent.
(b) Georg Reimann.
(c) George Markowitz.
(d) Professor Marx.

7. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?
(a) Light is independent of time.
(b) Light is independent of motion.
(c) Light is dependent on time.
(d) Light is dependent on motion.

8. What was everywhere when the universe was small?
(a) Quantum effects.
(b) Particle effects.
(c) Molecular effects.
(d) Atomic effects.

9. How many articles did Einstein pen that rocketed him to the top of the scientific community?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

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

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

12. What does time have?
(a) A presence.
(b) A being.
(c) A mark.
(d) A shape.

13. What may the universe not have, given quantum mechanics?
(a) A beginning and an ending.
(b) A single history or every possible history.
(c) Five histories.
(d) Infinite knowledge.

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

15. What may the no boundary condition imply?
(a) The universe can never be contained.
(b) The universe is self-conducted.
(c) The universe is self-contained.
(d) The universe will collapse if it cannot be condensed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can one not curve space without also curving?

2. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?

3. What does relativity show about the speed of light?

4. How did physicists respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?

5. What does Hawking resist believing in?

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