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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:
(a) Eyeglasses.
(b) Cathedrals.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Swords.

2. When radiation was first discovered, people thought it must have:
(a) Healthful properties.
(b) Been caused by thunderstorms.
(c) An extraterrestrial origin.
(d) High toxicity.

3. When was the Big Bang Theory first proposed?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1790s.

4. About how many stars are visible to the naked eye from Earth?
(a) 9,600.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 6,000.

5. Halley believed that once scientists figured out the distance from the sun to the Earth, they could then calculate what?
(a) Distances to distant stars.
(b) Weight of the sun.
(c) Weight of Earth.
(d) Distances to other planets.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the Compte de Buffon was spouting his theories of the new world, what was Frenchman Georges Cuvier doing?

2. Between 1980 and 2003, how many supernovas did the Reverend Robert Evans of Australia discover using a simple backyard telescope?

3. After noticing an unusual phenomenon with uranium salts and a photographic plate, Henri Becquerel asked one of his graduate students to investigate the matter. Who was this student?

4. What did the French Compte de Buffon claim about the New World (the Americas) compared to the known Old World?

5. James Hutton was a geologist who wondered why:

(see the answer key)

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