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

2. When did Galileo Galilei die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1697.
(c) 1710.
(d) 1666.

3. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1564.
(d) 1642.

4. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Alchemy.

5. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Venus.
(b) The moon.
(c) A star.
(d) Uranus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

3. When was Aristotle born?

4. 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?

5. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?

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