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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. What is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Heliocentricism.

2. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Brethren of Purity.
(b) The Scientific Mathematics.
(c) The Arabic Society.
(d) The Brothers of Peace.

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

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

5. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?
(a) Aristotle's.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Archimedes'.
(d) Eudoxus'.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Royal Society was established in what year?

2. Who wrote, "The greatest of all the accomplishments of twentieth-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance"?

3. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

4. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

5. What is a device with a special eyepiece to measure the size of a planet as seen through a telescope?

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