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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. The Royal Society was established in what year?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1603.
(c) 1782.
(d) 1689.

2. What was the name of Charles Darwin's grandfather who had written the book, "Zoonomia"?
(a) Erasmus Darwin.
(b) Edwin Darwin.
(c) James Darwin.
(d) Johann Darwin.

3. Who concluded that the process of the earth's creation was part of an infinite repeating cycle of development and destruction?
(a) George Gamow.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Fred Hoyle.
(d) Edwin Hubble.

4. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?
(a) Archimedes'.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Plato's.

5. Charles Darwin based his hypothesis that the world was old and always changing on the works of whom?
(a) Edwin Hubble.
(b) Charles Lyell.
(c) Jean Richer.
(d) Emanuel Kant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?

2. What are fuzzy patches of glowing material that can be observed throughout the universe?

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

4. Who published a paper in 1917 which provided evidence that the universe was expanding?

5. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?

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