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

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

3. What can quantum theory represent?
(a) The curves of space and time.
(b) The shaping of space and time.
(c) The dimensions of spacetime.
(d) The model of a timewarp.

4. What does supersymmetry imply?
(a) That molecules have a spin property.
(b) That particles had a spin property.
(c) That gamma rays have a spin property.
(d) That strings have a spin property.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?

2. What does Hawking resist believing in?

3. When were strings regarded as insufficient?

4. What is intuitive to think about the "ground state" or stationary state of an object?

5. What did this theory of curved spaces help Einstein and Marcel Grossman to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is vacuum energy?

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

3. What does the E = mc2 equation show?

4. Why does the theory of general relativity break down when discussing the Big Bang?

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

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

7. What is space-time?

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

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

10. What is considered to be expanding in our universe, and why does Hawking think this is beneficial?

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