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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Spirit Mother.
(b) Sky Dancer.
(c) Father Sky.
(d) Sky Mother.

2. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) The Roman story of creation.
(b) Babylonian astronomical records.
(c) The Dead Sea scrolls.
(d) The Mesopotanian history books.

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

4. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?
(a) Marco Polo's.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Eudoxus'.

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

6. Newton's interest turned to the skies and he saw the need for a telescope that improved upon Galileo's what?
(a) Quantum telescope.
(b) Lens telescope.
(c) Refractor telescope.
(d) Mirror telescope.

7. What is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Retrograde motion.

8. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) India.
(d) England.

9. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?
(a) The moon's movement.
(b) The earth's movement.
(c) The sun's movement.
(d) Alchemy.

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

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

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

13. 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) Heliocentricism.
(b) Cosmology.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Astronomy.

14. 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) Mars and Saturn.
(d) Saturn and Pluto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?

2. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?

3. When was Aristotle born?

4. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?

5. 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?

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