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

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

3. With advancements in clocks and the development of better maps, astronomers attempted to triangulate what planets?
(a) Mars and Saturn.
(b) Saturn and Pluto.
(c) Venus and Mars.
(d) Jupiter and Pluto.

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

5. What is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Heliocentricism.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Triangulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third premise of "On the Origin of Species"?

2. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

4. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

5. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

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