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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. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Plato.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Tycho Brahe.

2. 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) 476 A.D.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 12 B.C.
(d) 123 A.D.

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

4. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Brethren of Purity.
(b) The Arabic Society.
(c) The Brothers of Peace.
(d) The Scientific Mathematics.

5. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1597.
(d) 1692.

Short Answer Questions

1. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?

2. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

3. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?

4. When was Christopher Wren born?

5. When was Isaac Newton born?

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