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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. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 385 B.C.
(d) 410 B.C.

2. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?
(a) Two metal balls.
(b) Two feathers.
(c) A brick and a feather.
(d) Two apples.

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

4. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Aristarchus.

5. Who discovered the rotation of Jupiter?
(a) Plato.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Robert Hooke.
(d) Eudoxus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?

2. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

3. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?

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

5. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

(see the answer key)

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