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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Newton's Reach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 384 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

3. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?
(a) Quantum flux.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

4. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Astronomy.

5. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 12 B.C.
(b) 123 A.D.
(c) 476 A.D.
(d) 90 A.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?

2. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

3. 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"?

4. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

5. Galileo published his findings in what book?

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