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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. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Estimating the population.
(b) Timekeeping and navigation.
(c) Determining religious history.
(d) Predicting the future.

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

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

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) Retrograde motion.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Lepton.
(d) Triangulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?

2. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

3. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

4. In what country is Stonehenge located?

5. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

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