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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 refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?
(a) Lepton.
(b) Retrograde motion.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Asceticism.

2. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) Aristarchus.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

3. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Eudoxus.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristarchus.

4. 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"?
(a) Spirit Mother.
(b) Sky Dancer.
(c) Sky Mother.
(d) Father Sky.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?

4. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?

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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