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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Christopher Wren born?
(a) 1666.
(b) 1632.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1698.

2. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?
(a) The sun's movement.
(b) The earth's movement.
(c) The moon's movement.
(d) Alchemy.

3. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) Babylonian astronomical records.
(b) The Mesopotanian history books.
(c) The Dead Sea scrolls.
(d) The Roman story of creation.

4. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?
(a) 410 A.D.
(b) 1642.
(c) 220 B.C.
(d) 1564.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Great Pyramid of Giza was aligned to what, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

2. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

3. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?

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

5. Who discovered the period-luminosity phenomena that enabled the distances of the Milky Way and objects in deep space to be measured?

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