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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. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

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

3. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Ancius Boethius.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

4. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) Judas.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Archimedes.

5. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?
(a) Andromache's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Jean Richer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

2. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

3. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?

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

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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