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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 describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Cosmology.

2. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?
(a) 1515.
(b) 1492.
(c) 1624.
(d) 1496.

3. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The moon.
(b) A star.
(c) Uranus.
(d) Venus.

4. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

5. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

2. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

3. When was Galileo Galilei born?

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

5. 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"?

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