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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. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 384 B.C.
(d) 410 B.C.

2. What is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God?
(a) Creationism.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Heliocentricism.

3. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Astronomy.

4. William Herschel first became interested in nebulae when he read books by stargazers James Ferguson and whom?
(a) Rene Descartes.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Tycho Brahe.
(d) Robert Smith.

5. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?
(a) Jean Richer's.
(b) Andromache's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Isaac Newton born?

2. When was Edmond Halley born?

3. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

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. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?

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