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

2. What word means small or tiny?
(a) Intuitive.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Demonstrative.
(d) Diminutive.

3. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Indochina.
(b) Lemuria.
(c) Sumeria.
(d) Egypt.

4. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 385 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?

2. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

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

4. 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"?

5. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?

(see the answer key)

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