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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?
(a) Weight of Earth.
(b) Distances to distant stars.
(c) Distances to other planets.
(d) Weight of the sun.

2. According to James Ussher, an Archbishop of the Church of Ireland who was alive in the 1600s, Earth had been created:
(a) Millions of years ago.
(b) In an instant.
(c) On January 1, 10,000 B.C.
(d) On October 23, 4004 B.C.

3. Had the universe formed just slightly differently:
(a) Our solar system would have ten times more planets.
(b) Planets would be flat instead of round.
(c) Mankind would not exist.
(d) Earth would have seven moons.

4. James Hutton believed that the natural forces forming the geology of Earth are:
(a) Now extinct.
(b) Impossible to classify.
(c) Random and unpredictable.
(d) Still at work.

5. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1790s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:

2. Many scientists suspect that Pluto is just a comet of the:

3. How far away is Proxima Centauri from Earth?

4. The British astronomer Martin Rees hypothesizes that there could be an infinite number of what?

5. About how many stars can be seen from Earth using a two-inch telescope?

(see the answer key)

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