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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Queen Elizabeth.
(d) Queen Isabella.

2. The photographs taken by who in England in the 1880s proved that most nebulae were spirals?
(a) Isaac Roberts.
(b) William Parsons.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) James Keeler.

3. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Grow moss.
(b) Start moving.
(c) Dissipate.
(d) Stay at rest.

4. The man who associated the red-shift of the galaxies with Einstein's relativity was a Belgian priest and mathematician named what?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Edwin Hubble.
(c) Fred Hoyle.
(d) Georges Lemaitre.

5. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Brethren of Purity.
(b) The Arabic Society.
(c) The Scientific Mathematics.
(d) The Brothers of Peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the body of scientific principles that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and atomic particles?

2. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?

3. In what year did Charles Darwin theorize that the Dangerous Archipelago was once a series of volcanoes?

4. Who worked under George Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, as described by the author in Chapter 9?

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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