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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, the vacuum genesis argues that something came from nothing and the quantum genesis advocates the application of the random nature of ______ to the early universe.
(a) Quantum flux.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) Cartography.
(d) Parallax.

2. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?
(a) Plato.
(b) John Calvin.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Tycho Brahe.

3. William Herschel became most famous for the discovery of which planet?
(a) Mars.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Uranus.

4. The photographs taken by who in England in the 1880s proved that most nebulae were spirals?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Isaac Roberts.
(c) William Parsons.
(d) James Keeler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who elevated spectroscopy to an exact science?

2. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?

3. The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of what century?

4. What astrophysicist first referred to a single quantum of energy that erupted and unleashed the universe as the "big bang"?

5. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

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