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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. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

3. William Herschel became most famous for the discovery of which planet?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Uranus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Venus.

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

5. What astrophysicist first referred to a single quantum of energy that erupted and unleashed the universe as the "big bang"?
(a) Georges Lemaitre.
(b) Edwin Hubble.
(c) Fred Hoyle.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the world of quantum physics, fermions comprise matter and bosons convey what?

3. One element of quantum physics was that one could either determine where a particle was or its what?

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

5. When was Albert Einstein born?

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