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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. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Aristarchus.

2. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Descartes'.
(d) Plato's.

3. Who discovered the rotation of Jupiter?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Eudoxus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Robert Hooke.

4. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Aristarchus.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristotle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

2. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

3. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?

4. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?

5. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

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