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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Raising (and Lowering) the Roof.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) Athens.
(b) The Nile.
(c) China.
(d) Alexandria.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "The universe."
(b) "Impossible to determine."
(c) "Man's creation."
(d) "God's creation."

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

5. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?

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

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

5. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

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