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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In trigonometry and geometry, what is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly?
(a) Chronometry.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Triangulation.

2. The Age of Discovery was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into what century?
(a) 16th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 17th.

3. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Dissipate.
(b) Grow moss.
(c) Start moving.
(d) Stay at rest.

4. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?
(a) Quantum flux.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) Heliocentricism.

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

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

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

8. Where was Isaac Newton born?
(a) France.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

9. 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"?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Heliocentricism.

10. What was the epicenter of the burgeoning interest in seaward adventures, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Rome.
(b) Greece.
(c) Sagres.
(d) Sumeria.

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

12. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

13. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

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

15. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Descartes'.
(d) Plato's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle created a model of the universe based on whose work?

2. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

3. The Royal Society was established in what year?

4. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?

5. Isaac Newton developed a theory on gravitation and in doing so demolished whose dual universe?

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