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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?
(a) Ancius Boethius.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

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

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

5. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Astronomical units.
(b) Bosons.
(c) Particles.
(d) Leptons.

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

7. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Asceticism.
(d) Cosmology.

8. When did Venetian Alvise da Cadamosto discover the Southern Cross?
(a) 1488.
(b) 1515.
(c) 1455.
(d) 1698.

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

10. 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 Egyptians.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Lemurians.
(d) The Romans.

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

12. 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.

13. Who was the first astronomer to suggest a solar-centered planetary system?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

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

15. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) The Ptolemaic system.
(b) Quantum flux.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) The Tychonic system.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. 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?

4. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

5. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

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