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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?
(a) 36.
(b) 7.
(c) 11.
(d) 42.
2. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?
(a) Diseases of the New World would be much more deadly than in the Old World.
(b) Unusual, enormous species would be found in the New World.
(c) The New World was much more fertile than the old.
(d) Everything was smaller and inferior in the New World.
3. When French physicist Henri Becquerel accidentally left a packet of uranium salts on a photographic plate, what happened?
(a) The salt crystals melted into the plate.
(b) An emission from the salts ruined the plate.
(c) The plate became magnetic.
(d) The plate rusted.
4. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:
(a) Clothes.
(b) Swords.
(c) Eyeglasses.
(d) Cathedrals.
5. The British astronomer Martin Rees hypothesizes that there could be an infinite number of what?
(a) Electromagnetic frequencies.
(b) Speeds of light.
(c) Subatomic particles.
(d) Different universes.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the 1700s, people were finding holes in theories. For example, if the thoughts on erosion were completely correct, then:
2. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
3. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?
4. Astronomer Edmond Halley approached mathematician Sir Isaac Newton to get his help figuring out why planets:
5. About how many stars can be seen from Earth using a two-inch telescope?
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