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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. 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) 12 B.C.
(b) 123 A.D.
(c) 476 A.D.
(d) 90 A.D.

2. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Ancius Boethius.

3. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?
(a) The 15th century.
(b) The 16th century.
(c) The 12th century.
(d) The 13th century.

4. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?
(a) A brick and a feather.
(b) Two feathers.
(c) Two metal balls.
(d) Two apples.

5. Lambert wrote in his "Cosmological Letters" that the sun was a star on the a disc-shaped system of stars known as what?
(a) The sun.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) The Milky Way.
(d) Lepton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kant first became interested in space travel after reading a review of what philosopher's book?

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

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

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

5. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?

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