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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “Calculus.”
(b) "Immaterialism."
(c) “String theory.”
(d) “The Golden Ratio.”

3. When did the Protestant Reformation begin?
(a) 1517.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1725.
(d) 1445.

4. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Elliptical orbits.
(b) Movement.
(c) Circular orbits.
(d) Circular movement.

5. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Fertile Crescent.
(b) The Mayan Region.
(c) The Nile Region.
(d) The Twin Towers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?

2. Approximately when did Aristotle live?

3. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?

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

5. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?

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