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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. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

2. A combination of the telescope, the camera and what would ultimately reveal the composition of the stars?
(a) The spectroscope.
(b) The micrometer.
(c) The microscope.
(d) The particle scope.

3. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Retrograde motion.

4. 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) Alchemy.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The Tychonic system.

5. Fermions fall into two categories: quarks which respond to force and what which do not react to force?
(a) Micrometers.
(b) Bosons.
(c) Leptons.
(d) Nuclei.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?

2. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?

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

4. In Chapter 16, the author describes theoretical physicists, saying,"Theoretical physicists, like artists are guided in their work by aesthetic as well as" what concerns?

5. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?

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