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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. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

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

3. 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?
(a) Inertia.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Quantum flux.

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

5. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 384 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

2. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?

3. In what country is Stonehenge located?

4. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

5. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?

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