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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. 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) Timekeeping and navigation.
(b) Determining religious history.
(c) Predicting the future.
(d) Estimating the population.

2. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

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

4. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Father Sky.
(b) Spirit Mother.
(c) Sky Mother.
(d) Sky Dancer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Driven by debt, Galileo invented what which was well-received in Venice?

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

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

4. 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?

5. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

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