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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. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) The Roman story of creation.
(b) Babylonian astronomical records.
(c) The Mesopotanian history books.
(d) The Dead Sea scrolls.

2. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) Alchemy.

3. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?
(a) Andromache's.
(b) Eudoxus'.
(c) Jean Richer's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

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

5. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Ancius Boethius.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?

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

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. As far back as Ptolemy, geography was employed as an aid in the study of what, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

5. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

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