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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. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

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

3. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Indochina.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Lemuria.
(d) Sumeria.

4. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?
(a) Jean Richer.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Aristotle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?

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

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

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

5. What was the epicenter of the burgeoning interest in seaward adventures, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

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