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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) China.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Athens.
(d) The Nile.

2. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?
(a) England.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sparta.

3. When was Isaac Newton born?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1597.
(d) 1692.

4. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Sumeria.
(b) Indochina.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Lemuria.

5. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) John Calvin.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

6. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Rome.
(c) Athens.
(d) Alexandria.

7. Newton invented a new telescope that employed a mirror rather than what for the collection of light?
(a) A sphere.
(b) A lens.
(c) A radio.
(d) A metal rod.

8. The Middle Ages encompassed the period from the 5th century to when?
(a) The 12th century.
(b) The 13th century.
(c) The 15th century.
(d) The 16th century.

9. 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) Astronomy.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Chronometry.

10. What is a device with a special eyepiece to measure the size of a planet as seen through a telescope?
(a) Parallax.
(b) Lepton.
(c) Micrometer.
(d) Boson.

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

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

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

14. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Nicole Oresme.
(b) Plato.
(c) Eudoxus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Galileo Galilei born?

2. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

3. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

4. 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?

5. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?

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