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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Einstein's General Relativity be combined with?
(a) Molecular geology.
(b) Quantum biology.
(c) Multiple histories.
(d) Atomic philosophy.

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

3. What do string theories most notably lack?
(a) Dimensions.
(b) Infinities.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Proofs.

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

5. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?
(a) Five-dimensional warp speed.
(b) Four-dimensional space-time.
(c) Three-dimensional physics.
(d) Two-dimensional planes.

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

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

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

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

10. Because of the curvature of space-time, how do paths appear to bend?
(a) As if moved by gravity.
(b) As if moved by a plane.
(c) As if moved by magnets.
(d) As if moved by a field.

11. What did nineteenth century scientists believe space was pervaded by?
(a) Asteroids.
(b) Ether.
(c) Time.
(d) Methane.

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

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

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

15. How are galaxies distributed through space?
(a) Roughly uniformly.
(b) Neatly.
(c) Roughly diversely.
(d) Every two fathoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?

2. Who believed they could interpret General Relativity so time had an infinite past and an infinite future?

3. When did Einstein receive the Nobel prize?

4. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

5. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?

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