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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the author states that the Hubble telescope saw that most galaxies were flying away from one another by using red-shifting and blue-shifting effects, the cosmological equivalent of what?
(a) The Doppler effect.
(b) The radon effect.
(c) The differential effect.
(d) The Heisenberg effect.

2. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?
(a) Photons.
(b) Strings.
(c) Quanta.
(d) Derivatives.

3. What is the study of geometric properties that are invariant under projective transformations?
(a) Projective geometry.
(b) Projective algebra.
(c) Classical relativity.
(d) General relativity.

4. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was given lethal injection.
(b) He was burned at the stake.
(c) He was hung.
(d) He was shot by firing squad.

5. In what year did Albert Einstein publish a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect, leading to the quantum revolution?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1918.

Short Answer Questions

1. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?

2. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

3. The ancient Babylonians had a number system based on what increment?

4. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

5. The antiparticle of the electron is called what?

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