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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 330 B.C.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 385 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

2. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

3. According to the author in Chapter 7: "A Plumb Line to the Sun," some ships and their crews were lost at sea because it was difficult to establish what?
(a) Latitude.
(b) Area.
(c) Longitude.
(d) Mass.

4. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Sky Dancer.
(b) Spirit Mother.
(c) Father Sky.
(d) Sky Mother.

5. 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 metal balls.
(c) Two feathers.
(d) A brick and a feather.

6. 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) 476 A.D.
(b) 90 A.D.
(c) 123 A.D.
(d) 12 B.C.

7. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) France.

8. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1624.
(c) 1496.
(d) 1515.

9. Who discovered the rotation of Jupiter?
(a) Eudoxus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Robert Hooke.

10. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "The universe."
(b) "God's creation."
(c) "Man's creation."
(d) "Impossible to determine."

11. With advancements in clocks and the development of better maps, astronomers attempted to triangulate what planets?
(a) Venus and Mars.
(b) Jupiter and Pluto.
(c) Saturn and Pluto.
(d) Mars and Saturn.

12. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1564.

13. Practical reasons for learning about the stars and their movement included what in ancient times, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) Predicting the future.
(b) Timekeeping and navigation.
(c) Estimating the population.
(d) Determining religious history.

14. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The USS Explorer.
(b) The HMS Endeavour.
(c) The Beagle.
(d) The HMS Explorer.

15. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1455.
(d) 1488.

Short Answer Questions

1. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

2. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?

3. The Royal Society was established in what year?

4. What is the study and practice of making maps?

5. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

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