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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) Marco Polo's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Eudoxus'.

2. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?
(a) 1515.
(b) 1624.
(c) 1492.
(d) 1496.

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

4. Newton invented a new telescope that employed a mirror rather than what for the collection of light?
(a) A radio.
(b) A lens.
(c) A sphere.
(d) A metal rod.

5. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) Quantum flux.
(b) The Tychonic system.
(c) The Ptolemaic system.
(d) Triangulation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

2. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

3. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

4. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

5. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?

(see the answer key)

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