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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?
(a) His brother's sister Mary.
(b) His friend Margaret.
(c) His cousin Elsa.
(d) His sister's friend Eleanor.

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

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

5. 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 work of mathematician Karl Popper.
(d) The philosophy of George Markus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who later showed that general relativity implied the Big Bang?

2. How do objects in space-time attempt to move?

3. What theory of Einstein's contradicted Newton's law of gravity?

4. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

5. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

Short Essay Questions

1. What idea about the galaxies did Einstein never take seriously?

2. Describe the contradiction of relativity to Newton's law of gravity.

3. What paper did Einstein write with Grossman in 1913 and what happened in 1915 related to this same project?

4. Why can't we coherently ask why the universe is the way it is?

5. What did Einstein do in 1905 that launched him to the top of the scientific community?

6. What is a p = 1 brane and a p = 2 brane?

7. Briefly describe Einstein's involvement in the events of WWII.

8. What was the "ether" theory?

9. What kind of history might the universe have, according to quantum mechanics?

10. What does the E = mc2 equation show?

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