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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 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?
(a) 123 A.D.
(b) 12 B.C.
(c) 90 A.D.
(d) 476 A.D.

2. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Athens.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Rome.

3. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) John Calvin.

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

5. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Start moving.
(b) Grow moss.
(c) Stay at rest.
(d) Dissipate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

2. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

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

4. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

5. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

(see the answer key)

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