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

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

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

4. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Eudoxus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?

2. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

3. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?

4. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

5. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

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