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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 can Penrose and Hawking's machinery help them study?
(a) Black holes and the middle of the earth.
(b) Planetary rings and asteroids.
(c) Singularities and black holes.
(d) Solar belts and singularities.

2. What is one hundred thousand times faster than evolution?
(a) The increase in population.
(b) The increase in energy states.
(c) The increase in information.
(d) The increase in mass growth.

3. What popular sci-fi show does Hawking refer to when discussing its differences with humanity in a millennium?
(a) Doctor Who.
(b) Star Trek.
(c) Torchwood.
(d) Star Wars.

4. How can one find black holes?
(a) By seeking out the matter that orbits around a visible object.
(b) By finding matter that orbits around a seemingly invisible object.
(c) By seeking out the matter that revolves around finite space.
(d) By finding the mass of everything invisible.

5. What famous quote is attributed to physicist John Wheeler?
(a) A black hole is wearing a wig.
(b) A black hole has no hair.
(c) A black hole has two hairs.
(d) A black hole is bald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will be preserved if this equation determines the wave function?

2. What is determinism threatened by?

3. How does Hawking describe exploring the galaxy?

4. What do the Schrodinger equations assume?

5. In what kind of theory does matter behave according to quantum theory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might happen if we do not destroy ourselves?

2. What did Strominger and Vafa postulate in 1996?

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

4. What is the main question concerning space-time, if one avoids philosophical discussion and focuses on the laws of physics?

5. What does Hawking believe black holes radiate?

6. What final thought does Hawking have about Star Trek and humanity, in the closing of Chapter 6?

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

8. How many books are published a year, and what does Hawking have to say about the good ones?

9. What will happen as brains increase in size?

10. What is the Schrodinger equation?

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