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

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

3. What does Hawking believe we should try to understand?
(a) The universe.
(b) Market theory.
(c) Gravitational spin.
(d) All philosophy.

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

5. If there is a low amount of matter in the universe what will happen?
(a) The universe will stop expanding in two span.
(b) The universe will never expand.
(c) The universe will explode.
(d) The universe will expand forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Einstein move in 1914?

2. According to Popper, what happens if positivism is true?

3. What did Newton's model suggest about time and space?

4. What did the philosopher Immanuel Kant worry about concerning time and Newton's model?

5. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was considered the foundation of a TOE and why did it go out of fashion?

3. What does Hawking believe the possibility of intelligent beings' existence depends on?

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

5. What is hard to reconcile with Dirac's discoveries in quantum mechanics?

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

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

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

9. What is vacuum energy?

10. How did the general relativity theory break down?

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