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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. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) The Tychonic system.

2. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The USS Explorer.
(b) The HMS Endeavour.
(c) The HMS Explorer.
(d) The Beagle.

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

4. The photographs taken by who in England in the 1880s proved that most nebulae were spirals?
(a) James Keeler.
(b) Isaac Roberts.
(c) William Parsons.
(d) John Calvin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

2. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

3. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?

4. 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"?

5. The Royal Society was established in what year?

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