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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Newton's Reach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristotle.

2. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "Man's creation."
(b) "God's creation."
(c) "Impossible to determine."
(d) "The universe."

3. Galileo published his findings in what book?
(a) "De Revolutionibus."
(b) "The Almagest."
(c) "On the Origin of Species."
(d) "Sidereus Nuncius."

4. When was Galileo Galilei born?
(a) 1564.
(b) 1642.
(c) 410 A.D.
(d) 220 B.C.

5. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?

2. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

3. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

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. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?

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