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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?
(a) 1698.
(b) 1455.
(c) 1488.
(d) 1515.

3. 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) 123 A.D.
(b) 12 B.C.
(c) 90 A.D.
(d) 476 A.D.

4. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Greece.
(d) Portugal.

5. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Aristarchus.

Short Answer Questions

1. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

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 Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

3. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?

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. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

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