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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Ancius Boethius.
(d) Marco Polo.

2. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?
(a) 476 A.D.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 120 B.C.
(d) 224 A.D.

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

4. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Italy.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Greece.

5. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Aristarchus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

2. When was Isaac Newton born?

3. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

4. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?

5. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?

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