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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?
(a) Laws are always fallible.
(b) Laws are never fallible.
(c) Most laws need to be rewritten.
(d) Laws should remain constant in the view of all observers.

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

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

4. What theories of relativity did Einstein advance?
(a) Present perfect and past special.
(b) Special and general.
(c) General and perfect.
(d) Normal and placid.

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

6. What does relativity show about the speed of light?
(a) The speed of light is independent of will.
(b) The speed of light is an illusion of motion.
(c) The speed of light will appear constant.
(d) The speed of light is dependent upon gravity.

7. How many galaxies are there?
(a) One hundred thousand.
(b) Five million.
(c) Two trillion.
(d) Billions and billions.

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

9. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?
(a) A new sort of plane.
(b) A new sort of timewarp.
(c) A new sort of symmetry.
(d) A new sort of planck.

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

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

12. What is a p = 2 brane?
(a) A geometrical unit.
(b) A surface.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A wall.

13. What did Hawking and Hartle believe the universe may not have?
(a) A narrow scope.
(b) A broad scope.
(c) A boundary.
(d) A time condition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How were people's views of space-time changed because of Einstein's work?

3. How did the universe initially expand?

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

5. If there is a low amount of matter in the universe what will happen?

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