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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. Driven by debt, Galileo invented what which was well-received in Venice?
(a) The camera.
(b) The sailboat.
(c) The radio.
(d) The telescope.

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?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Chronometry.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Triangulation.

3. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?
(a) 224 A.D.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 120 B.C.
(d) 476 A.D.

4. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

5. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Lambert wrote in his "Cosmological Letters" that the sun was a star on the a disc-shaped system of stars known as what?

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

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

5. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?

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