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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, the vacuum genesis argues that something came from nothing and the quantum genesis advocates the application of the random nature of ______ to the early universe.
(a) Parallax.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) Quantum flux.
(d) Cartography.

2. The question that has plagued everyone from ordinary man to astrophysicist is what, according to the author in Chapter 19?
(a) Whether the Egyptians were capable of building the pyramids.
(b) Whether science is mystical.
(c) Whether life as we know it exists somewhere else in the universe.
(d) Whether there is a god.

3. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

4. Although the behavior of gravitation still holds in Einstein's theory of relativity, there is a breakdown when it comes to gravitational fields within what?
(a) Quantum leaps.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Black holes.
(d) Observational astronomy.

5. Who published a paper in 1917 which provided evidence that the universe was expanding?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Emanuel Kant.
(c) Vesto Slipher.
(d) Jean Richer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?

2. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?

3. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?

4. What was the name of Charles Darwin's grandfather who had written the book, "Zoonomia"?

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

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