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Test 1. The material examinable is the content of the chapters: "Special relativity: the Principles," "Special Relativity: Clocks and Rods," "Special relativity: Adding Velocities," "Relativity of Simultaneity," "Is Special Relativity Paradoxical?" "E=mc²," "Origins of Special Relativity," "Einstein's Pathway to Special Relativity"; and the assignments 1, 2 and 3.

Test 2. The material examinable is the content of the chapters: the three "Spacetime" chapters, the three "Morals" chapters and the assignments 4 and 5.The conventionality of simultaneity is excluded from the examinable "morals" sections.

Test 3. The material examinable is the content of the chapters on Non-Euclidean Geometry, especially as summarized in "Spaces of Constant Curvature" and "Spaces of Variable Curvature," the chapters "General Relativity," "Gravity Near a Massive Body"; and the assignments 6 and 7. 

Test 4. The material examinable is the content of the chapters: "Relativistic Cosmology," "Time Travel Universes," "Our Universe"; and the assignments 8 and 9.

Test 5. The material examinable is the content of the chapters: "Big Bang Cosmology," "Must there have been a big Bang?", "Black Holes," and "A Better Picture of Black Holes"; and the assignments 10 and 11.

Test 6. The material examinable is the content of the chapters "Origins of Quantum Theory," "Quantum Theory of Waves and Particles," "The Measurement Problem" and the assignments 12 and 13.