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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 Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The moon.
(b) Venus.
(c) Uranus.
(d) A star.

2. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 12 B.C.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 476 A.D.
(d) 123 A.D.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When was Aristotle born?

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

4. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?

5. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?

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