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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Kabbalism.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Hasidism.
(d) Sufism.

2. In the middle of the 20th Century, Hendrik Casmir and what other Dutch physicist proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms?
(a) Dirk Polder.
(b) Peter Mitchell.
(c) James Washington.
(d) Andrew Miller.

3. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?
(a) Yogi Sutras.
(b) Shulba Sutras.
(c) The Kartikeya.
(d) Shavi Sutras.

4. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?
(a) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Planck constant.

5. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(b) Egypt and Babylonia.
(c) Europe and the Americas.
(d) India and China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?

2. The Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy was an argument between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz over what?

3. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?

4. What term refers to a physical constant that is the quantum of action in quantum mechanics?

5. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?

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