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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. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Quantum flux.
(c) The Ptolemaic system.
(d) The Tychonic system.

2. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?
(a) The 15th century.
(b) The 12th century.
(c) The 13th century.
(d) The 16th century.

3. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 384 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 385 B.C.
(d) 410 B.C.

4. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) King Henry IV.
(d) Queen Isabella.

5. Lambert wrote in his "Cosmological Letters" that the sun was a star on the a disc-shaped system of stars known as what?
(a) The sun.
(b) The Milky Way.
(c) Dark matter.
(d) Lepton.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

2. Where was Albert Einstein born?

3. What ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

4. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?

5. The first step in the exploration of intergalactic space was taken by what philosopher?

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