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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?
(a) Descartes'.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Aristotle's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

2. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?
(a) Venus.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Mars.
(d) Jupiter.

3. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Retrograde motion.
(d) Alchemy.

4. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Ancius Boethius.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

5. The first step in the exploration of intergalactic space was taken by what mathematician?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Jean Richer.
(c) Johann Lambert.
(d) John Harrison.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?

2. Who discovered the period-luminosity phenomena that enabled the distances of the Milky Way and objects in deep space to be measured?

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

4. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

5. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?

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