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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. In Chapter 15, the author writes that physicists learned that when an electron was elevated into a higher orbit, it moved from lower to higher orbit without what?
(a) Gaining momentum.
(b) Traversing the intervening space.
(c) Gaining or losing heat.
(d) Gaining or losing energy.

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

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

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

5. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "On the Origin of Species."
(b) "De Revolutionibus."
(c) "The Almagest."
(d) "Sidereus Nuncius."

Short Answer Questions

1. Quantum physics first emerged when who theorized that energy came in discrete units called quanta?

2. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?

3. The man who associated the red-shift of the galaxies with Einstein's relativity was a Belgian priest and mathematician named what?

4. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

5. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?

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