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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 ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Lemurians.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Egyptians.

2. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Eudoxus.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Albert Einstein.

3. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1488.
(d) 1455.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

2. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

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

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

5. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?

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