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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 is the study and practice of making maps?
(a) Chronometry.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Cartography.
(d) Alchemy.

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

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

4. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) John Calvin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?

2. Although Darwin wrote his theory in a 230-page essay, he did not publish it for how long?

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 a device with a special eyepiece to measure the size of a planet as seen through a telescope?

5. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

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