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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. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1515.
(c) 1624.
(d) 1496.

2. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) The Ptolemaic system.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Quantum flux.

3. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Jean Richer.
(d) Archimedes.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?

3. When was Aristotle born?

4. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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