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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 is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines?
(a) Cartography.
(b) Micrometer.
(c) Parallax.
(d) Chronometry.

2. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?
(a) Venus.
(b) Mars.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Jupiter.

3. 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.

4. When was Galileo Galilei born?
(a) 1564.
(b) 1642.
(c) 220 B.C.
(d) 410 A.D.

5. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The USS Explorer.
(b) The Beagle.
(c) The HMS Endeavour.
(d) The HMS Explorer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

3. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

4. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?

5. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?

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