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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1798.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1853.

2. Charles Darwin based his hypothesis that the world was old and always changing on the works of whom?
(a) Charles Lyell.
(b) Jean Richer.
(c) Edwin Hubble.
(d) Emanuel Kant.

3. What is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Asceticism.

4. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Archimedes.

5. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The USS Explorer.
(b) The HMS Explorer.
(c) The HMS Endeavour.
(d) The Beagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7: "A Plumb Line to the Sun," some ships and their crews were lost at sea because it was difficult to establish what?

2. In trigonometry and geometry, what is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly?

3. Although Darwin wrote his theory in a 230-page essay, he did not publish it for how long?

4. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?

5. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

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