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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 ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Lemurians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Egyptians.

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

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "The universe."
(b) "Impossible to determine."
(c) "Man's creation."
(d) "God's creation."

5. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?
(a) Magnetic.
(b) Disrupted by another force.
(c) Tilted toward negative energy.
(d) Affected by radiation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is Stonehenge located?

2. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?

3. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?

4. 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"?

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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