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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) Solar belts and singularities.
(b) Planetary rings and asteroids.
(c) Singularities and black holes.
(d) Black holes and the middle of the earth.

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

3. How does Hawking describe exploring the galaxy?
(a) Quick and methodical.
(b) Fast and furious.
(c) Slow and tedious.
(d) Slow and easy.

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. How is the following quote finished: "The human race needs to improve its mental and physical qualities to deal with an...?"
(a) Increasingly complex world.
(b) Interesting and diversive world.
(c) Increasingly simple world.
(d) Intuitive and diverse world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can p-branes predict?

2. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?

3. What may computers also have like human brains?

4. What made DNA obsolete as the only source of information about humans?

5. How does Hawking state particle states be represented?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three of the things Hawking declares have increased exponentially, doubling every forty years of less?

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

3. How does Hawking begin Chapter Four?

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

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

6. What will happen as brains increase in size?

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

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

9. How would black hole radiation occur?

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

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