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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Raising (and Lowering) the Roof.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Alchemy.

2. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Quantum flux.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Inertia.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "Impossible to determine."
(b) "The universe."
(c) "God's creation."
(d) "Man's creation."

4. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?
(a) Earth.
(b) God.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

2. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

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

4. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?

5. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?

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