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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. Newton's interest turned to the skies and he saw the need for a telescope that improved upon Galileo's what?
(a) Mirror telescope.
(b) Refractor telescope.
(c) Lens telescope.
(d) Quantum telescope.

2. 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?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) The Tychonic system.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Quantum flux.

3. 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.

4. A spectrum analysis of what nebula proved that it was not gaseous but contained stars?
(a) The Andromeda nebula.
(b) The Halley nebula.
(c) The Kant nebula.
(d) The Aristotilian nebula.

5. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) King Henry IV.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Queen Isabella.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is Stonehenge located?

2. A combination of the telescope, the camera and what would ultimately reveal the composition of the stars?

3. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?

4. What is a division of the astronomical science that is concerned with getting data, in contrast with theoretical astrophysics, which is mainly concerned with finding out the measurable implications of physical models?

5. In what year did Charles Darwin theorize that the Dangerous Archipelago was once a series of volcanoes?

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