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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Bosons.
(b) Astronomical units.
(c) Particles.
(d) Leptons.

2. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "The Almagest."
(b) "De Revolutionibus."
(c) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(d) "On the Origin of Species."

3. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Sky Mother.
(b) Spirit Mother.
(c) Sky Dancer.
(d) Father Sky.

4. Giovanni Cassini studied data by what astronomer who observed Mars at its closest passage to earth and determined, a value of 87 million miles for the astronomical unit?
(a) John Harrison.
(b) Plato.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Jean Richer.

5. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) Alchemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The photographs taken by who in England in the 1880s proved that most nebulae were spirals?

2. In the world of quantum physics, fermions comprise matter and bosons convey what?

3. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?

4. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

5. Quantum physics first emerged in what year?

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