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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Eudoxus.

2. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Predicting the future.
(b) Determining religious history.
(c) Timekeeping and navigation.
(d) Estimating the population.

3. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Venus.
(b) A star.
(c) Uranus.
(d) The moon.

4. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?
(a) Poland.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) England.

5. The Age of Discovery was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into what century?
(a) 18th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 19th.

6. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 384 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

7. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) The Ptolemaic system.
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) Quantum flux.

8. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) The Tychonic system.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Heliocentricism.

9. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 128 A.D.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 218 B.C.
(d) 355 B.C.

10. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) Greece.
(b) England.
(c) Portugal.
(d) France.

11. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Stay at rest.
(b) Start moving.
(c) Grow moss.
(d) Dissipate.

12. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Judas.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Aristarchus.

13. What word means small or tiny?
(a) Indicative.
(b) Diminutive.
(c) Intuitive.
(d) Demonstrative.

14. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) The Mesopotanian history books.
(b) Babylonian astronomical records.
(c) The Roman story of creation.
(d) The Dead Sea scrolls.

15. Newton invented a new telescope that employed a mirror rather than what for the collection of light?
(a) A metal rod.
(b) A lens.
(c) A sphere.
(d) A radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

2. When was Edmond Halley born?

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?

5. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

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