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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. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(b) Ancius Boethius.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Archimedes.

2. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Eudoxus.
(d) Aristarchus.

3. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Aristarchus.
(c) Judas.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?

2. What ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

3. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

4. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

5. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?

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