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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. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Greece.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Italy.

2. Galileo published his findings in what book?
(a) "The Almagest."
(b) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(c) "De Revolutionibus."
(d) "On the Origin of Species."

3. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?
(a) Lepton.
(b) Retrograde motion.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Asceticism.

4. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Judas.
(d) Archimedes.

5. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?
(a) 476 A.D.
(b) 120 B.C.
(c) 90 A.D.
(d) 224 A.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

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

3. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

4. When was Galileo Galilei born?

5. 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"?

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