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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. Driven by debt, Galileo invented what which was well-received in Venice?
(a) The camera.
(b) The telescope.
(c) The sailboat.
(d) The radio.

2. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Mikolai Kopernik.

3. 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"?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Heliocentricism.

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

5. 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) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) Nicole Oresme.
(d) Mikolai Kopernik.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

2. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

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

4. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

5. 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?

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