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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William Herschel first became interested in nebulae when he read books by stargazers James Ferguson and whom?
(a) Rene Descartes.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Robert Smith.
(d) Tycho Brahe.

2. What is the second premise of "On the Origin of Species"?
(a) Survival is based on the process of natural selection.
(b) Survival is based on nature versus nurture.
(c) There are variations within species.
(d) Living creatures create more off-spring than nature can support.

3. In Chapter 15, the author writes that physicists learned that when an electron was elevated into a higher orbit, it moved from lower to higher orbit without what?
(a) Traversing the intervening space.
(b) Gaining momentum.
(c) Gaining or losing energy.
(d) Gaining or losing heat.

4. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?
(a) Mars.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Venus.
(d) Jupiter.

5. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Greece.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Rome.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Although the behavior of gravitation still holds in Einstein's theory of relativity, there is a breakdown when it comes to gravitational fields within what?

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

3. In 1929, who confirmed movement away from earth and evidence of cosmic expansion?

4. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?

5. A spectrum analysis of what nebula proved that it was not gaseous but contained stars?

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