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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?
(a) Zyloph.
(b) Zebra.
(c) Zephyrus.
(d) Sifr.

2. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?
(a) 1459.
(b) 1366.
(c) 1548.
(d) 1623.

3. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Babylonian system.
(c) Cartesian coordinate system.
(d) The Pythagorean system.

4. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Decreases.
(b) Remains unchanged.
(c) Turns into an imaginary number.
(d) Increases.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

4. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

5. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?

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