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

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

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

5. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Scientific Mathematics.
(b) The Arabic Society.
(c) The Brothers of Peace.
(d) The Brethren of Purity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?

2. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

3. 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"?

4. What word means small or tiny?

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?

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