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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. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1455.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1488.
(d) 1598.

2. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Plato.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Eudoxus.
(d) Nicole Oresme.

3. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

4. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "De Revolutionibus."
(b) "On the Origin of Species."
(c) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(d) "The Almagest."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

2. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

3. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?

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

5. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?

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