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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. 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?
(a) Longitude.
(b) Area.
(c) Mass.
(d) Latitude.

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

3. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Leptons.
(b) Bosons.
(c) Astronomical units.
(d) Particles.

4. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Nicole Oresme.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Eudoxus.
(d) Plato.

5. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(b) "On the Origin of Species."
(c) "The Almagest."
(d) "De Revolutionibus."

Short Answer Questions

1. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?

2. 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?

3. Giovanni Cassini studied data by what astronomer who observed Mars at its closest passage to earth and determined, a value of 87 million miles for the astronomical unit?

4. What is the study and practice of making maps?

5. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

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