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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Sir Isaac Newton live?
(a) 1559-1601.
(b) 1624-1680.
(c) 1642-1727.
(d) 1707-1746.

2. When did René Descartes live?
(a) 1596-1650.
(b) 1922-1969.
(c) 1436-1501.
(d) 1625-1706.

3. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Kartikeya.
(b) Ganesha.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Pavarti.

4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?
(a) A quanta.
(b) A limit.
(c) A derivative.
(d) An equation.

5. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?
(a) 15.
(b) -100.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

2. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?

3. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

4. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

5. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?

(see the answer key)

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