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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?
(a) 2nd Century.
(b) 1st Century.
(c) 5th Century.
(d) 6th Century.

2. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?
(a) A dot.
(b) An omicron.
(c) A line.
(d) An omega.

3. 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) An Index of Arabic Books.
(c) A book of Annals.
(d) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

4. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 240-200 BC.
(b) 410-500 AD.
(c) 159-201 AD.
(d) 780-850 AD.

5. What term refers to the viewpoint that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge?
(a) Archism.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Dadaism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What term refers to a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping?

4. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

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