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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. When did Einstein receive the Nobel prize?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1925.

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

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

4. How did religious leaders respond to Hawking and Penrose's work?
(a) It made them struggle with their beliefs.
(b) It mystified them.
(c) It scared them.
(d) It delighted them.

5. Who developed quantum theory?
(a) Max Jeoff.
(b) Max Wurst.
(c) Max Planck.
(d) Percy Max.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we need to describe what happens on the edge of the universe?

2. How does Hawking think we should try to understand the beginning of the universe?

3. What did Einstein suggest concerning the speed of light?

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

5. What did Einstein assume about scientific laws?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is space-time?

2. What does it mean for stars to be red-shifted or blue-shifted?

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

4. What changed about the way we view zero point fluctuations in the 1940s?

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

6. Who worked on quantum mechanics in the 1920s, and what discovery was made?

7. What did Penrose and Hawking's theory have to say about the universe's history?

8. What new sort of symmetry was discovered in the 1970s?

9. What was the "ether" theory?

10. What does the E = mc2 equation show?

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