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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Euclid's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provided most of the content in the book Elements?
(a) Postulates.
(b) Hypotheses.
(c) Notions.
(d) Propositions.

2. What was true about Hippocrates's proof?
(a) The proof was easy if their was advanced technology available.
(b) The proof was exceedingly difficult and not understood at the time.
(c) It was fairly easy and simple.
(d) It was useful for circles.

3. Who was the first of ancient philosophers to consider why geometric properties existed?
(a) Thales.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hippocrates.

4. What was Hippocrates famous for?
(a) His proof defining gravity.
(b) His proof on right triangles.
(c) His ability to construct circles without a compass.
(d) His theorem on the quadrature of the lune.

5. After Hippocrates, what shape did the Greeks attempt to square without success?
(a) Hemisphere.
(b) Circle.
(c) Parallelogram.
(d) Pentagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was most useful about finding the square of a shape, before Hippocrates?

2. Which of the following was NOT one of the things Dunham claimed was ingenious about Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem?

3. Which of the following was NOT one of the basic definitions in Elements?

4. What did the Pythagorean Theorem accomplish for mathematics?

5. What does the Pythagorean Theorem state?

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