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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Deep Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Heliocentricism.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Asceticism.

2. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 476 A.D.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 123 A.D.
(d) 12 B.C.

3. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?
(a) Rome.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Sparta.
(d) England.

4. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristarchus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are fuzzy patches of glowing material that can be observed throughout the universe?

2. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?

3. The subject of a universe of galaxies emerged again when Johann Lambert was appointed where?

4. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?

5. The author of "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" described the Milky Way as what?

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