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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) Aristotle.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Archimedes.

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

3. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 218 B.C.
(c) 128 A.D.
(d) 355 B.C.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

2. Driven by debt, Galileo invented what which was well-received in Venice?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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