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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Scientific Mathematics.
(b) The Brothers of Peace.
(c) The Arabic Society.
(d) The Brethren of Purity.

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

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

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

5. 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?
(a) Inertia.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Quantum flux.
(d) Asceticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the study and practice of making maps?

2. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

3. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

4. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?

5. Galileo published his findings in what book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the concept of inertia change the image of the cosmos, according to the author in Chapter 2: "Raising (and Lowering) the Roof"?

2. What were the practical reasons for ancient civilizations to focus on the cosmos, as described by the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

3. What achievements did Eudoxus go on to accomplish after his studies? Who did he influence, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

4. How does the author describe the work and theories of Claudius Ptolemy in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

5. What scholars and astronomers influenced the theories of Copernicus, according to the author in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

6. Where did the pursuit of science evolve after the rise of Christianity, according to the author in Chapter 2: "Raising (and Lowering) the Roof"?

7. What did Galileo attempt do bring physics into the study of in Chapter 5: "The World in Retrograde"?

8. What interests did Isaac Newton have in addition to science, according to the author in Chapter 6: "Newton's Reach"?

9. What sparked the reawakening of interest in the cosmos, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

10. What explorations around the Cape of Good Hope does the author describe in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"? When did these take place?

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