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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what decade did Henry VIII reject the Papal authority?
(a) The 1620s.
(b) The 1550s.
(c) The 1530s.
(d) The 1490s.

2. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?
(a) The computer.
(b) The stick-stone.
(c) The calculator.
(d) The abacus.

3. 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 Planck constant.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

4. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity's Twin,” “i” appears whenever one takes the square root of what?
(a) Zero.
(b) A negative number.
(c) A fraction.
(d) Infinity.

5. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) An Index of Arabic Books.
(b) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
(c) A book of Annals.
(d) The Death of the Prophet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his “discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”?

2. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?

3. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

4. In physics or chemistry, what term refers to particles that are smaller than an atom?

5. In the middle of the 20th Century, Hendrik Casmir and what other Dutch physicist proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms?

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