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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. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 385 B.C.
(d) 330 B.C.

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Tycho Brahe.
(d) John Calvin.

4. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Retrograde motion.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Lepton.

5. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?

2. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?

3. In what country is Stonehenge located?

4. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

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

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