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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 book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(b) "On the Origin of Species."
(c) "The Almagest."
(d) "De Revolutionibus."

2. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Captain James Cook.
(d) Marco Polo.

3. What is the body of scientific principles that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and atomic particles?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

4. Which astronomer discovered that some nebulae had spiral structures?
(a) James Keeler.
(b) Tycho Brahe.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) William Parsons.

5. The "probability" nature of quantum physics bothered what physicist who thought a some point a quantum theory of certitudes would be developed?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Jean Richer.
(d) Robert Hooke.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

2. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?

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

4. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

5. Quantum physics first emerged when who theorized that energy came in discrete units called quanta?

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