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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does time not have apart from the universe?
(a) Futuristic tendencies.
(b) Dependent meaning.
(c) Illegitimate significance.
(d) Independent meaning.

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

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

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

5. What does the universe's real-time history determine, according to Hawking and Hartle?
(a) Its fictional time history.
(b) Its third-eye time history.
(c) Its imaginary time history and vice versa.
(d) Its historical fictions.

6. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?
(a) Ground state fluctuations.
(b) Third state fluctuations.
(c) Second state fluctuations.
(d) Fourth state fluctuations.

7. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?
(a) Time and space are only observed.
(b) Time and space are inter-related subparticle phenomena.
(c) Time and space can't be observed.
(d) Time and space were not affected by events around them.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?
(a) The scientific work of Isaac Newton.
(b) The philosophy of science advanced by Karl Popper.
(c) The philosophy of George Markus.
(d) The work of mathematician Karl Popper.

13. What is vacuum energy's force inverse to?
(a) Mass.
(b) Acceleration.
(c) Weight.
(d) Force.

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

15. How do objects in space-time attempt to move?
(a) In curves.
(b) In loops.
(c) In boxes.
(d) In straight lines.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?

3. What can quantum theory represent?

4. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?

5. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?

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