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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 the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) Recording or calculating area.
(b) The diagonal of the square.
(c) Symbols for numerals.
(d) The Pythagorean Theorem.

2. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(b) Egypt and Babylonia.
(c) India and China.
(d) Europe and the Americas.

3. Lord Kelvin is well known for determining the correct value of absolute zero. Absolute zero is approximately what temperature Celsius?
(a) -273.15 degrees.
(b) -59 degrees.
(c) -125.32 degrees.
(d) -32 degrees.

4. What term refers to an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation?
(a) Electron.
(b) Nucleus.
(c) Photon.
(d) Radon.

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?
(a) Photons.
(b) Strings.
(c) Quanta.
(d) Derivatives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

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

5. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?

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