View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Raising (and Lowering) the Roof.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?
(a) 90 A.D.
(b) 224 A.D.
(c) 120 B.C.
(d) 476 A.D.

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

4. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Rome.
(d) Athens.

5. 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) Rome.
(c) England.
(d) Sparta.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Aristotle born?

3. What word means small or tiny?

4. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?

5. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 195 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample