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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. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

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

3. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 355 B.C.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 218 B.C.
(d) 128 A.D.

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

5. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) The Mesopotanian history books.
(b) The Dead Sea scrolls.
(c) The Roman story of creation.
(d) Babylonian astronomical records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

2. What word means small or tiny?

3. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

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

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

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