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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?
(a) Retribution from the scientific community.
(b) Retribution from his wife.
(c) Retribution from the Church.
(d) Retribution from his family.

3. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

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

5. Who sentenced Jesus Christ to death?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Judas.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

6. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?
(a) Chronometry.
(b) Cartography.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Astronomy.

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

8. 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) Plato's.
(b) Marco Polo's.
(c) Eudoxus'.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

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

10. 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 Mesopotanian history books.
(d) The Dead Sea scrolls.

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 Zurich.
(d) The University of Paris.

12. 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) Sumeria.
(c) Greece.
(d) Sagres.

13. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 218 B.C.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 355 B.C.
(d) 128 A.D.

14. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) Portugal.
(b) England.
(c) Greece.
(d) France.

15. Isaac Newton developed a theory on gravitation and in doing so demolished whose dual universe?
(a) Aristotle's.
(b) Eudoxus'.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newton's interest turned to the skies and he saw the need for a telescope that improved upon Galileo's what?

2. 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"?

3. Where was Galileo Galilei from?

4. Legend had it that Galileo dropped what off the tower of Pisa to illustrate that all objects fell at the same rate of speed?

5. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

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