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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. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 385 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 410 B.C.

2. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Cosmology.

3. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Greece.
(c) Rome.
(d) Alexandria.

4. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1564.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

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

5. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

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