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

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

3. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Rome.
(d) England.

4. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 218 B.C.
(c) 128 A.D.
(d) 355 B.C.

5. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Ancius Boethius.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?

5. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

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