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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) The Nile.
(c) Athens.
(d) China.

2. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Nicole Oresme.

3. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 384 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 330 B.C.

4. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Marco Polo's.

5. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?
(a) The wheel.
(b) The automobile.
(c) The radio.
(d) The printing press.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Vasco da Gama from?

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

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

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

5. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?

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