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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. What is the study and practice of making maps?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Cartography.
(c) Chronometry.
(d) Astronomy.

2. Fermions fall into two categories: quarks which respond to force and what which do not react to force?
(a) Micrometers.
(b) Nuclei.
(c) Leptons.
(d) Bosons.

3. Who discovered the period-luminosity phenomena that enabled the distances of the Milky Way and objects in deep space to be measured?
(a) Henrietta Leavitt.
(b) Robert Smith.
(c) Jean Richer.
(d) Harlow Shapley.

4. SETI was first proposed in 1959 by Giuseppe Cocconi and whom?
(a) Philip Morrison.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) James Williams.

5. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Bosons.
(b) Astronomical units.
(c) Leptons.
(d) Particles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

2. The author of "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" described the Milky Way as what?

3. As far back as Ptolemy, geography was employed as an aid in the study of what, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

4. William Herschel first became interested in nebulae when he read books by stargazers James Ferguson and whom?

5. Although Darwin wrote his theory in a 230-page essay, he did not publish it for how long?

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