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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristarchus.

2. What is the first premise of "On the Origin of Species"?
(a) Living creatures create more off-spring than nature can support.
(b) Survival is based on nature versus nurture.
(c) There are variations within species.
(d) Survival is based on the process of natural selection.

3. Where did Charles Darwin find marine fossils on mountaintops?
(a) Florida.
(b) Chile.
(c) Spain.
(d) Mexico.

4. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Cartography.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Chronometry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In trigonometry and geometry, what is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly?

2. Charles Darwin went on a five-year world-wide expedition on what brig?

3. According to the author in Chapter 7: "A Plumb Line to the Sun," some ships and their crews were lost at sea because it was difficult to establish what?

4. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

5. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?

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