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

2. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) China.
(b) Athens.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) The Nile.

3. When was Galileo Galilei born?
(a) 410 A.D.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1564.
(d) 220 B.C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?

3. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

4. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

5. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?

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