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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. 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) Triangulation.
(c) Retrograde motion.
(d) Asceticism.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Vasco da Gama from?

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

5. When did Galileo Galilei die?

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