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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 backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Ancius Boethius.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Marco Polo.

2. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) Germany.
(b) India.
(c) England.
(d) France.

3. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 123 A.D.
(b) 476 A.D.
(c) 12 B.C.
(d) 90 A.D.

4. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Ancius Boethius.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Marco Polo.

5. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?

3. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

4. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?

5. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

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