2. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Heliocentricism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Asceticism.

3. What word means small or tiny?
(a) Demonstrative.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Diminutive.
(d) Intuitive.

4. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Retrograde motion.
(d) Lepton.

5. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Jean Richer.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

3. What ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

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

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?

(see the answer key)

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