SparkNotes: Johannes Kepler: Review Test

1. Where was Kepler born?

(A) Linz

(B) Berlin

(C) Weil-der-Stadt

(D) Gratz

2. What was Kepler's father's name?

(A) Heinrich

(B) Johannes

(C) Sebaldus

(D) Albert

3. How many siblings did Kepler have?

(A) none

(B) two

(C) four

(D) six

4. What religion was Kepler?

(A) Jewish

(B) Protestant

(C) Catholic

(D) Atheist

5. What university did Kepler attend?

(A) University of Tuebingen

(B) Cambridge University

(C) Oxford University

(D) University of Gratz

6. In what subject did Kepler pursue his graduate degree?

(A) Astronomy

(B) Mathematics

(C) Theology

(D) History

7. From whom did Kepler learn about the Copernican system?

(A) Galileo Galilei

(B) Tycho de Brahe

(C) Michael Maestlin

(D) Sir Isaac Newton

8. What was the name of the astronomer who created the system of the universe that was replace by the Copernican system?

(A) Plato

(B) Ptolemy

(C) Aristotle

(D) Tycho de Brahe

9. Where was the sun in the Copernican system?

(A) At the edge of the universe

(B) Orbiting the earth

(C) At the center of the earth

(D) At the center of the universe

10. To what town did Kepler move after college?

(A) Weil-der-Stadt

(B) Linz

(C) Gratz

(D) Prague

11. In his first job as a professor, what subjects did Kepler teach?

(A) Theology and philosophy

(B) Astronomy and math

(C) Math and philosophy

(D) Astronomy and theology

12. What planetary system did Kepler endorse?

(A) Copernican

(B) Tychonic

(C) Platonic

(D) Ptolemaic

13. What was the name of Kepler's first book?

(A) Astronomia Nova

(B) Mysterium Cosmographicum

(C) Harmonice Mundi

(D) Sidereus Nuncius

14. Which of the following planets had not been discovered at the time of Kepler?

(A) Mars

(B) Pluto

(C) Jupiter

(D) Saturn

15. Which of the following is not a perfect solid?

(A) Square

(B) Cube

(C) Octahedron

(D) Tetrahedron

16. What was the name of Kepler's first wife?

(A) Katherine

(B) Margaret

(C) Alice

(D) Barbara

17. How many wives did Kepler have?

(A) one

(B) two

(C) three

(D) four

18. What body part was Tycho de Brahe missing?

(A) Hand

(B) Nose

(C) Foot

(D) Finger

19. Where was Tycho's first observatory?

(A) Austria

(B) Germany

(C) Denmark

(D) Italy

20. Where was Tycho when Kepler came to work for him?

(A) Berlin

(B) Prague

(C) Linz

(D) Gratz

21. Why did Kepler wan to work for Tycho?

(A) Because he needed Tycho's astronomical observations

(B) Because he had heard Tycho was such a nice guy

(C) Because he believed in the Tychonic system

(D) Because he would get a big salary

22. Why did Kepler need to leave Gratz behind forever?

(A) He was getting a divorce

(B) His house burned down

(C) He lost his job

(D) He was exiled

23. What planet did Tycho make Kepler study?

(A) Mercury

(B) Mars

(C) Venus

(D) Jupiter

24. After Tycho's death, how did Kepler get Tycho's astronomical observations?

(A) Tycho left them to Kepler in his will

(B) Kepler stole them

(C) Tycho's assistant gave them to Kepler

(D) Tycho's son gave them to Kepler

25. How was Tycho's system different from the Copernican system?

(A) Tycho believed that the earth revolved around the sun and the planets revolved around the earth

(B) Tycho believed that the earth revolved around the sun

(C) Tycho believed that the planets revolved around Mars

(D) Tycho believed that the sun revolved around earth and the planets revolved around the sun

26. Who battled Kepler for the use of Tycho's observations after Tycho died?

(A) Galileo

(B) The Junker Tengnagel

(C) Tycho's wife

(D) Rudolph II

27. What is the name of the work in which Kepler's first two laws appear?

(A) Astronomia Nova

(B) Mysterium Cosmographicum

(C) Harmonice Mundi

(D) Sidereus Nuncius

28. What is Kepler's first law?

(A) The planets cover equal areas in equal times

(B) Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion

(C) The planets travel in elliptical orbits

(D) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

29. What is Kepler's second law?

(A) The planets cover equal areas in equal times

(B) Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion

(C) The planets travel in elliptical orbits

(D) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

30. Which of Kepler's Laws did he discover first?

(A) His first law

(B) His second law

(C) His third law

(D) His fourth law

31. What was Kepler's official title while he was in Prague?

(A) Imperial Mathematicus

(B) Mathematicus Principia

(C) The Emperor's Astronomer

(D) The Austrian Astronomer

32. For which Emperor did Kepler work while he was writing the Astronomia Nova?

(A) Leo X

(B) Rudolph II

(C) Joseph II

(D) James II

33. In what year did Kepler publish the Astronomia Nova?

(A) 1609

(B) 1614

(C) 1619

(D) 1624

34. In addition to astronomy, to what scientific field did Kepler contribute major work?

(A) Biology

(B) Chemistry

(C) Optics

(D) Astrology

35. Who is the first major astronomer to make use of the telescope?

(A) Kepler

(B) Brahe

(C) Galileo

(D) Newton

36. What did Galileo discover about Jupiter?

(A) It had rings

(B) It was not really a planet

(C) It was blue

(D) It had moons

37. What was Kepler's reaction to Galileo's discovery?

(A) He supported it

(B) He ignored it

(C) He argued against it

(D) He stole it for himself

38. When Kepler requested that Galileo send him a telescope, what did Galileo do?

(A) Galileo invited Kepler to come use his telescope

(B) Galileo ignored him

(C) Galileo sent him an old one

(D) Galileo made him a new one

39. What disease killed Kepler's first wife and son?

(A) The Bubonic Plague

(B) The Hungarian Fever

(C) Cancer

(D) Malaria

40. By 1618, what did Kepler believe determined the spacing between the planets?

(A) The perfect solids

(B) Gravity

(C) The universal harmonies

(D) Inertia

41. What did Kepler believe was pushing the planets around their orbits?

(A) A force emanating from the earth

(B) A force emanating from the sun

(C) A force emanating from the edge of the universe

(D) A force emanating from God

42. In what book did Kepler explain his third book?

(A) Harmonice Mundi

(B) Astronomia Nova

(C) Mysterium Cosmographicum

(D) Sidereus Nuncius

43. Why did Kepler need to rush to his mother's side in 1615

(A) She was sick

(B) Her house burned down

(C) She threatened to disown him

(D) She was accused of being a witch

44. What were the Rudolphine Tables?

(A) A collection of astronomical predictions based on the Ptolemaic system

(B) A collection of astronomical predictions based on the Copernican system

(C) A collection of astronomical predictions based on the Tychonic system

(D) A collection of mahogany tables made especially for Emperor Rudolph II

45. After the emperor's death in where did Kepler go?

(A) Gratz

(B) Hveen

(C) Linz

(D) Vienna

46. Why did Kepler leave Prague?

(A) The new emperor fired him

(B) The city was being torn apart by civil war

(C) Kepler loved Linz

(D) Kepler wanted to go back to his native land

47. What was the name of Kepler's science fiction story about a trip to the moon?

(A) Voyage to the Moon

(B) Volva e Luna

(C) Somnium

(D) Astronomia Nova

48. In Kepler's science fiction story, what were the names of the two tribes of moon-dwellers?

(A) Darksiders and Brightsiders

(B) Lunars and Solars

(C) Patholics and Crotestants

(D) Prevolvans and Subvolvans

49. In what year did Kepler die?

(A) 1609

(B) 1615

(C) 1630

(D) 1634

50. Who used Kepler's laws to create a comprehensive system of terrestrial and celestial physics?

(A) Albert Einstein

(B) Galileo

(C) Newton

(D) Brahe