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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 original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Marco Polo.

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

3. 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"?
(a) The Egyptians.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Lemurians.
(d) The Romans.

4. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Alexandria.

5. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?
(a) 1455.
(b) 1488.
(c) 1515.
(d) 1698.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Galileo Galilei die?

2. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

4. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?

5. When was Isaac Newton born?

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