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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. How does Hawking describe himself?
(a) A positivist.
(b) A negativist.
(c) A relationist.
(d) An optimist.

2. What characteristic of black holes has been stated as never having been observed?
(a) Logic.
(b) Willpower.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Karma.

3. What does Hawking say might happen if humans don't destroy themselves?
(a) Humans will find a way to live on the Earth forever.
(b) Humans will need to procreate rapidly.
(c) Humans will spread to other planets.
(d) Humans will need to ration food.

4. What does Hawking say extraterrestrials might be like?
(a) Not very bright.
(b) Like humans.
(c) Easy to get along with.
(d) Very primitive or very advanced.

5. What kind of philosophy do black holes have?
(a) A present philosophy.
(b) A mature philosophy.
(c) An escape philosophy.
(d) A contemporary philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the size of biological brains limited by?

2. What kind of fluctuations do we have to consider to answer whether or not time travel is possible?

3. What is determinism threatened by?

4. What partially restores determinism as a view?

5. What will create great problems for unimproved humans?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might p-branes be able to predict?

2. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

3. What are wormholes?

4. What does much of the possibility of time travel depend upon?

5. What does Hawking think he can prove about space-time paths?

6. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

7. What does Hawking think about the possible technological level of extraterrestrials?

8. How would black hole radiation occur?

9. What is the grandfather paradox?

10. What did the physicist John Wheeler mean when he said, "a black hole has no hair"?

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