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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. 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"?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Lemurians.
(d) The Greeks.

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) Alchemy.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Heliocentricism.

3. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?
(a) The moon.
(b) Earth.
(c) The sun.
(d) God.

4. 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) Quantum flux.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Asceticism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

2. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?

3. When was Aristotle born?

4. 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"?

5. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

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