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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?
(a) The Brooklyn Project.
(b) The Farside Project.
(c) The Chicago Project.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

4. What may imaginary time surfaces actually be?
(a) Curved surfaces.
(b) Closed lines.
(c) Closed surfaces.
(d) Open planes.

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

6. What theories implied that supersymmetric field particles should have superpartners?
(a) Symmetric movement theories.
(b) Particle accelerator theories.
(c) Supergravity theories.
(d) Supertheoric partner theories.

7. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?
(a) This this implied time was finite.
(b) That Newton's model was disproportionate.
(c) That this implied time was infinite.
(d) That Newton's model was too irrelevant.

8. What did one of Einstein's mathematical errors prevent Marcel and Einstein from doing?
(a) Going to the SpaceTime conference of 1954.
(b) Colloborating on a second effort.
(c) Formulating the appropriate equations.
(d) Finishing the job in two weeks.

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

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

11. Who were unconvinced by the ideas of an infinite past and future?
(a) Popper and Newkowitz.
(b) Shalob and Khalatnikov.
(c) Penrose and Hawking.
(d) Lifshitz and Hawking.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hubble find about collections of stars?

2. Who developed quantum theory?

3. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

4. Dirac's discoveries were difficult to reconcile with what?

5. What is one reason Hawking takes multiple dimensions seriously?

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