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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 refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Retrograde motion.
(c) Lepton.
(d) Asceticism.

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

3. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) A star.
(b) Venus.
(c) The moon.
(d) Uranus.

4. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Nicole Oresme.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Mikolai Kopernik.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Isaac Newton born?

2. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

3. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?

4. 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"?

5. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?

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