Fred, Murderous Maths, Proverbs
Einstein's Universe, The Road to Serfdom
Finished Roman Holiday (with youngest yelling, "No!!" as the credits rolled)
Lots of individual reading of library books
Quiz (actually, large test, so they get to do it with their writing -- in theory, linked to watching Thor, although we're not telling them that)
11/8/13 Quiz
1. A common
saying taken from today’s Proverbs readings is “_______ goes before the fall.”
2. Which is
taller, the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building?
3. Hayak wrote
“The Road to Serfdom” at about the time of which war?
4. Name a
country that he was trying to warn about socialism.
5. Name the
country that he believed socialism had brought to a very bad place.
6. True or
false: According to Hayak, only
bad people with evil intentions believed in socialism.
7. Does Hayak
believe that Germans are more vicious than other people? What does he think of that idea?
8. Einstein
says part of his inspiration for his theories on gravity came after watching
what happen.
9. Explain in
detail how a human body keeps itself from falling down.
10. What do
they call the state where you do not feel the force of gravity because you are
falling?
11. Close to
the earth, time is ____________ than it is high above the earth; this is
because of the effect of the earth’s ______________.
12. If our
Earth were compressed into a black hole, it would be about what size?
13. Explain
what the event horizon of a black hole is, and what makes it an event horizon.
14. True or
false: Light has mass.
15. True or
false: Light is affected by
gravity.
16. Circle the
correct answer: Gravity creates a
small redshift / blueshift in white light.
17. Answer the
following questions in paragraph form using what we read from “Letters of a
Woman Homesteader”, using a separate sheet of paper.
Describe in detail the main character of the book (50 to 100
words).
18. Describe
your favorite supporting character, and explain why he or she is your favorite.
(50 to 100 words)
19. The story
is told in the form of letters – do you feel it still has a plot? Why or why not? (25 to 50 words)
20. Mrs.
Stewart describes the landscape quiet a bit in her letters. In 25 to 50 words, either tell me about
one of the landscapes she described or tell me why you think Mrs. Stewart wrote
about the land so much.
21. Do you feel
like people today can understand the kind of life Mrs. Stewart lived? Why or why not?
Extra Credit:
1. Write 1/45
as a decimal number.
2. Hayak writes
that “we are all socialists now”.
What did he mean by that, and how does he think we should proceed if
that is true?
3. Why would
white light beamed from space right outside a black hole’s event horizon out to
an astronaut far from the black hole look red?
4. Time near a
white dwarf start is slowed down by about one ______ a _______.
5. What do you
think Jerrine was feeling during the time Mrs. Stewart’s letters were being
written?
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