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

2. Galileo was appointed as a professor of mathematics at what institution?
(a) The University of Pisa.
(b) The University of Zurich.
(c) The University of Paris.
(d) The University of Chicago.

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

4. What is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The Tychonic system.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Asceticism.

5. The author of "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" described the Milky Way as what?
(a) A flattened disc of stars.
(b) In retrograde motion.
(c) An elliptical radiant.
(d) In quantum flux.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Isaac Newton born?

2. When was Christopher Wren born?

3. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?

4. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

5. Charles Darwin went on a five-year world-wide expedition on what brig?

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