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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. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?
(a) The moon.
(b) God.
(c) Earth.
(d) The sun.

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

3. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Aristarchus.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Archimedes.

4. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) England.
(b) India.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means small or tiny?

2. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

3. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?

4. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

5. When was Isaac Newton born?

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