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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1875, why was Max Planck advised against studying physics and urged to study math instead?
(a) Planek knew high-level math but only very basic physics.
(b) It was believed that all the important physics discoveries had already been made.
(c) A career in math offered greater financial opportunities for him.
(d) The government often arrested those who delved in certain branches of physics.

2. Vesto Slipher's work at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona led him to discover that distant stars are moving away from us, with the farthest stars moving the fastest, suggesting that the universe is:
(a) Shrinking.
(b) Expanding.
(c) Stable.
(d) Oscillating.

3. While the Compte de Buffon was spouting his theories of the new world, what was Frenchman Georges Cuvier doing?
(a) Writing the first ever description of the enormous mastodon, a new world discovery.
(b) Living among indigenous people of the New World and writing down their languages.
(c) Studying the archeology of the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs.
(d) Cataloging edible plant species found in the New World.

4. Today, scientists know that radiation in high doses is:
(a) Tolerable.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Toxic.
(d) Safe.

5. In 1903, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering radioactivity?
(a) Louise Désirée Lorieux, Jean Becquerel, and Henri Becquerel.
(b) Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
(c) René Just Haüy and Jean Becquerel.
(d) Marie Curie and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who postponed his honeymoon in order to write a scientific paper about the movements of electrons?

2. What massive bone belonging to a dinosaur was found in New Jersey in 1789?

3. According to the Reverend William Buckland, the biblical reference to "in the beginning" with regards to the formation of Earth could refer to:

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

5. In addition to being a seventeenth-century astronomer, Christopher Wren designed:

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