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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. In 1929, who confirmed movement away from earth and evidence of cosmic expansion?
(a) Edwin Hubble.
(b) Georges Lemaitre.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Fred Hoyle.

2. 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) Cartography.
(c) Parallax.
(d) Dark matter.

3. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Athens.
(d) Rome.

4. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?
(a) Two apples.
(b) Two feathers.
(c) Two metal balls.
(d) A brick and a feather.

5. When did Protestant clergyman John Wilkins speak of man's settling on the moon?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1795.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1638.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?

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

3. When was Charles Darwin born?

4. What is defined as a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form?

5. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?

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