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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. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?
(a) Tilted toward negative energy.
(b) Affected by radiation.
(c) Disrupted by another force.
(d) Magnetic.

2. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 90 A.D.
(b) 123 A.D.
(c) 476 A.D.
(d) 12 B.C.

3. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Heliocentricism.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Triangulation.

4. What is a member of a class of very luminous variable stars?
(a) Micrometer.
(b) Parallax.
(c) Cepheid.
(d) Dark matter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1929, who confirmed movement away from earth and evidence of cosmic expansion?

2. What was the name of Charles Darwin's grandfather who had written the book, "Zoonomia"?

3. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?

4. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?

5. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?

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