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a0266361136 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Galileo wrote

A) Penses.
B) a translation of the Bible in Italian.
C) The Starry Messenger.
D) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
E) Principia.

Question 2

In 1900, the Foraker Act made ___________________ an unincorporated territory.

A) Cuba
B) Puerto Rico
C) the Philippines
D) the Virgin Islands
E) Guam

Question 3

Johannes Kepler was the first astronomer to show that

A) the planets are made of earth-like material.
B) planetary orbits are elliptical.
C) the stars are immensely far away.
D) everything is an illusion.
E) the moon orbits around the earth.

Question 4

The Philippines became an independent nation following

A) the Spanish-American War.
B) World War I.
C) World War II.
D) the Korean War,
E) the Vietnam War.

Question 5

Tycho Brahe contributed to the advance of astronomy by

A) working out the theory of inertia.
B) making accurate observations of the planets.
C) calculating the pull of gravity on the tides by the moon.
D) calculating the distance to the sun.
E) inventing the astrolabe.