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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 would happen if energy escaped the black hole over time?
(a) Its heat would escape as well.
(b) Its light would fragment.
(c) Its fragrance would emit.
(d) Its temperature would rise.

2. What is the name of Hawking's conjecture about the laws of physics and macroscopic time travel?
(a) The Chronology Protection Conjecture.
(b) The Timeline Protection Conjecture.
(c) The Chronological Spacetime Conjecture.
(d) The Theoretical Projection Conjecture.

3. What is Feynman's history idea called?
(a) Singular history idea.
(b) Fictional history idea.
(c) Multiple history idea.
(d) Imaginary history idea.

4. What are cosmic strings?
(a) Objects with length but tiny cross sections.
(b) Sections of space divided into tiny lines.
(c) Planes with narrowly etched furrows.
(d) Points between which waves connect.

5. What partially restores determinism as a view?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Quantum curvature.
(c) Quantum leaps.
(d) Quantum hopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?

2. What outline of cosmic strings is flat?

3. What is a practical limit on the design of faster computers?

4. How can one find black holes?

5. What final state does Hawking wonder if humanity will ever reach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What will happen as brains increase in size?

2. What is a time travel "horizon"?

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

4. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

5. What is the grandfather paradox?

6. What is the Schrodinger equation?

7. At what rate is the computational power of computers increasing, and what computational rate might they actually reach?

8. What does it mean for Hawking to think one can "move" positive vacuum energy?

9. What does Hawking claim might happen if children could gestate outside the womb?

10. How would black hole radiation occur?

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