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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. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) Queen Isabella.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) King Henry IV.

2. What was the epicenter of the burgeoning interest in seaward adventures, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Sagres.
(b) Rome.
(c) Greece.
(d) Sumeria.

3. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The moon.
(b) A star.
(c) Uranus.
(d) Venus.

4. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) Greece.
(b) Portugal.
(c) France.
(d) England.

5. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "Man's creation."
(b) "God's creation."
(c) "The universe."
(d) "Impossible to determine."

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

2. 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"?

3. In what country is Stonehenge located?

4. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

5. Galileo published his findings in what book?

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