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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?
(a) The hexagram.
(b) The pentagram.
(c) The sphere.
(d) The diamond.

2. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?
(a) A heliocentric model.
(b) A geocentric model.
(c) A culture centric model.
(d) A lunar centric model.

3. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?
(a) 10 BC.
(b) 23 BC.
(c) 50 BC.
(d) 36 BC.

4. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Projective physics.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

5. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?
(a) Motion.
(b) Time.
(c) God.
(d) The Devil.

6. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(b) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(c) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.
(d) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.

7. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 490 BC.
(b) 560 BC.
(c) 459 BC.
(d) 230 BC.

8. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) France.

9. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Sifr.
(b) Zeno.
(c) Zephyr.
(d) Siro.

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

11. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Drone program.
(b) The Subatomic program.
(c) The Eastern Invasion program.
(d) The Smart Ship program.

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

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

14. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
(a) Shapes.
(b) Chakras.
(c) Gods.
(d) Words.

15. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?
(a) The geometrical system.
(b) The solar system.
(c) The symbolic system.
(d) The decimal system.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?

2. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?

3. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?

4. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?

5. In 1996 and 1997, the USS Yorktown was equipped with a network of how many dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based computers running Windows NT 4.0?

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