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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 was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1564.

2. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Tycho Brahe.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Plato.

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

4. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Marco Polo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

2. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?

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

4. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?

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