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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Jean le Rond d'Alembert had satisfied the mathematician's need for what?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Theology.
(c) An all-encompassing theory.
(d) Logical rigor.

2. In what year was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his “discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1921.

3. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?
(a) 1701.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1659.

4. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?
(a) A reflecting telescope.
(b) An Alhazen’s telescope.
(c) A chromatic telescope.
(d) A refracting telescope.

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) Symbols for numerals.
(b) The diagonal of the square.
(c) Recording or calculating area.
(d) The Pythagorean Theorem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?

2. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?

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

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

5. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?

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