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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. 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) "Impossible to determine."
(d) "The universe."

2. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Aristarchus.
(c) Mikolai Kopernik.
(d) Marco Polo.

3. Galileo was appointed as a professor of mathematics at what institution?
(a) The University of Paris.
(b) The University of Pisa.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of Zurich.

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

5. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) Alchemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Galileo Galilei born?

2. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?

3. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

4. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

5. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?

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