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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Sun Worshipers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Brethren of Purity.
(b) The Brothers of Peace.
(c) The Arabic Society.
(d) The Scientific Mathematics.

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

3. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Ancius Boethius.

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

5. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Predicting the future.
(b) Timekeeping and navigation.
(c) Determining religious history.
(d) Estimating the population.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

2. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

4. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

5. Where was Vasco da Gama from?

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