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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. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Marco Polo's.
(d) Eudoxus'.

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

4. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Mikolai Kopernik.
(d) Nicole Oresme.

5. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Judas.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

2. Where was Christopher Columbus from?

3. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?

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

5. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?

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