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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 metal balls.
(b) Two apples.
(c) Two feathers.
(d) A brick and a feather.

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

4. When was Christopher Wren born?
(a) 1698.
(b) 1666.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1632.

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

6. Driven by debt, Galileo invented what which was well-received in Venice?
(a) The radio.
(b) The sailboat.
(c) The camera.
(d) The telescope.

7. Who was the first to explore the coast of Africa and discover its rich natural resources in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Mikolai Kopernik.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) Nicole Oresme.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

8. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?
(a) Affected by radiation.
(b) Tilted toward negative energy.
(c) Magnetic.
(d) Disrupted by another force.

9. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Ancius Boethius.

10. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?
(a) Plato.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) John Harrison.
(d) Jean Richer.

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

12. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?
(a) 384 B.C.
(b) 330 B.C.
(c) 410 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

13. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?
(a) Jean Richer.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Archimedes.

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

15. What ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?
(a) The Lemurians.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Romans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

3. 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?

4. What is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines?

5. When was Isaac Newton born?

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