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

2. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Lemuria.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Indochina.
(d) Sumeria.

3. A spectrum analysis of what nebula proved that it was not gaseous but contained stars?
(a) The Halley nebula.
(b) The Kant nebula.
(c) The Aristotilian nebula.
(d) The Andromeda nebula.

4. What Russian scientist theorized that the beginning of the universe may have started with a core so hot and dense that it created nuclear fusion and created the elements now known to man?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Fred Hoyle.
(c) George Gamow.
(d) Edwin Hubble.

5. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Retrograde motion.
(d) Cosmology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

3. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

4. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?

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

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