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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?
(a) We cannot say what space is.
(b) We lose all negativity.
(c) We cannot believe in time.
(d) We cannot say what time is.

6. What did Penrose and Hawking demonstrate concerning General Relativity?
(a) The universe started with a massive explosion.
(b) The universe will end with a massive explosion.
(c) The universe started with a tiny whirpool of light.
(d) The universe will collapse in a hundred years.

7. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?
(a) G = mc3.
(b) E = mc2.
(c) G = cm2.
(d) E = cm3.

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

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

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

11. Because galaxies are not far apart, fifteen billion years ago what might have occurred?
(a) A "Big Bang."
(b) A light was turned on.
(c) A solar system was reduced to ten atoms.
(d) An earthquake.

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

13. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?
(a) Boundary conditions.
(b) Finite structures.
(c) Limited perceptions.
(d) Boundary laws.

14. What may be a law of nature?
(a) Inflation.
(b) Condensation.
(c) Decompression.
(d) Lifestyle.

15. What can one not curve space without also curving?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Time.
(c) Spacetime.
(d) Functions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hawking think is beneficial concerning matter?

3. How did the universe initially expand?

4. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

5. What does time have?

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