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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) 476 A.D.
(c) 90 A.D.
(d) 12 B.C.

2. Newton's interest turned to the skies and he saw the need for a telescope that improved upon Galileo's what?
(a) Refractor telescope.
(b) Quantum telescope.
(c) Lens telescope.
(d) Mirror telescope.

3. Where was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Greece.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Italy.

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

5. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?
(a) The automobile.
(b) The radio.
(c) The printing press.
(d) The wheel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

4. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

5. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

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