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

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

3. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) Germany.
(b) India.
(c) France.
(d) England.

4. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) Athens.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) China.
(d) The Nile.

5. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 384 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?

2. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. When was Aristotle born?

5. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

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