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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. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Archimedes.

2. Where was Galileo Galilei from?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

3. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?
(a) Rome.
(b) Sparta.
(c) England.
(d) Alexandria.

4. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Eudoxus'.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Marco Polo's.
(d) Plato's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

2. The Age of Discovery was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into what century?

3. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

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

5. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?

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