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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. In 1929, who confirmed movement away from earth and evidence of cosmic expansion?
(a) Fred Hoyle.
(b) Edwin Hubble.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Georges Lemaitre.

2. William Herschel was the first astronomer to make "acute, systematic observations of the universe" beyond what?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The solar system.

3. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Bosons.
(b) Leptons.
(c) Astronomical units.
(d) Particles.

4. Lambert wrote in his "Cosmological Letters" that the sun was a star on the a disc-shaped system of stars known as what?
(a) The Milky Way.
(b) Lepton.
(c) The sun.
(d) Dark matter.

5. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are fuzzy patches of glowing material that can be observed throughout the universe?

2. The author of "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" described the Milky Way as what?

3. Where was William Herschel from?

4. A spectrum analysis of what nebula proved that it was not gaseous but contained stars?

5. Isaac Newton developed a theory on gravitation and in doing so demolished whose dual universe?

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