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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The World in Retrograde.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) Quantum flux.

3. When did Galileo Galilei die?
(a) 1697.
(b) 1710.
(c) 1666.
(d) 1642.

4. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Nicole Oresme.
(b) Plato.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Eudoxus.

5. 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?
(a) Quantum flux.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Asceticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?

2. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

3. When was Aristotle born?

4. 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"?

5. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?

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