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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Scientific Mathematics.
(b) The Brethren of Purity.
(c) The Arabic Society.
(d) The Brothers of Peace.

2. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?
(a) Retribution from the Church.
(b) Retribution from his wife.
(c) Retribution from his family.
(d) Retribution from the scientific community.

3. When was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1798.
(d) 1902.

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

5. Where did Charles Darwin find marine fossils on mountaintops?
(a) Florida.
(b) Spain.
(c) Chile.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newton's interest turned to the skies and he saw the need for a telescope that improved upon Galileo's what?

2. What is a member of a class of very luminous variable stars?

3. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?

4. Giovanni Cassini studied data by what astronomer who observed Mars at its closest passage to earth and determined, a value of 87 million miles for the astronomical unit?

5. 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?

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