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

2. When was Edmond Halley born?
(a) 1656.
(b) 1717.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1666.

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

4. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Greece.
(b) Rome.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Italy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?

3. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?

4. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?

5. 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?

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