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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. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) England.
(b) India.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

2. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?
(a) Andromache's.
(b) Eudoxus'.
(c) Jean Richer's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

3. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

4. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?
(a) The sun.
(b) God.
(c) Earth.
(d) The moon.

5. When did Galileo Galilei die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1710.
(c) 1666.
(d) 1697.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means small or tiny?

2. 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"?

3. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?

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. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?

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