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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. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Mars.

2. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 385 B.C.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 384 B.C.
(d) 330 B.C.

3. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1488.
(c) 1455.
(d) 1616.

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

5. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?
(a) The moon's movement.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) The sun's movement.
(d) The earth's movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a paper entitled, "The Sand Reckoner"?

2. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. What word means small or tiny?

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

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