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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. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Marco Polo's.
(d) Eudoxus'.

2. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Predicting the future.
(b) Determining religious history.
(c) Estimating the population.
(d) Timekeeping and navigation.

3. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Eudoxus.
(b) Nicole Oresme.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Plato.

4. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) Babylonian astronomical records.
(b) The Dead Sea scrolls.
(c) The Roman story of creation.
(d) The Mesopotanian history books.

5. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?
(a) Aristotle's.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Archimedes'.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Christopher Wren born?

2. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?

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

4. Galileo was appointed as a professor of mathematics at what institution?

5. 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?

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