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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The World in Retrograde.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the epicenter of the burgeoning interest in seaward adventures, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Sumeria.
(b) Sagres.
(c) Greece.
(d) Rome.

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

3. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1488.
(c) 1616.
(d) 1455.

4. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?
(a) Archimedes'.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Plato's.

5. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1564.
(d) 1919.

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

3. As far back as Ptolemy, geography was employed as an aid in the study of what, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

4. 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"?

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

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