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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?
(a) 1623.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1459.
(d) 1366.

2. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Havana, Cuba.
(c) Del Norte, California.
(d) Cape Charles, Virginia.

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Physics.

4. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Babylonian system.
(c) Cartesian coordinate system.
(d) The Pythagorean system.

5. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
(a) The mathēmatikoi.
(b) The omnimatioi.
(c) The akousmatikoi.
(d) The Hippasusikoi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

2. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?

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

4. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?

5. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?

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