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

2. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Eudoxus.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristarchus.

3. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) Greece.
(b) France.
(c) Portugal.
(d) England.

4. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 128 A.D.
(c) 218 B.C.
(d) 355 B.C.

5. Newton invented a new telescope that employed a mirror rather than what for the collection of light?
(a) A radio.
(b) A metal rod.
(c) A sphere.
(d) A lens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?

2. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

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

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. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

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