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

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

3. A combination of the telescope, the camera and what would ultimately reveal the composition of the stars?
(a) The particle scope.
(b) The microscope.
(c) The spectroscope.
(d) The micrometer.

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

5. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?
(a) 224 A.D.
(b) 120 B.C.
(c) 476 A.D.
(d) 90 A.D.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

2. Who elevated spectroscopy to an exact science?

3. What is the body of scientific principles that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and atomic particles?

4. Quantum physics first emerged in what year?

5. 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?

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