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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Siro.
(b) Nil.
(c) Sunya.
(d) Zeno.

3. 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) 1921.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1927.

4. 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.

5. Absolute zero has no energy and is unattainable for what reason?
(a) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires a black hole.
(b) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero exerts energy.
(c) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires infinity.
(d) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires string distribution.

Short Answer Questions

1. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

2. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?

3. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

4. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

5. When was Lord Kelvin born?

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