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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1646.
(b) 1711.
(c) 1611.
(d) 1559.

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

4. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?
(a) The Oulu Cathedral.
(b) The Nidaros Cathedral.
(c) The Florence Cathedral.
(d) Metz Cathedral.

5. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 560 BC.
(b) 459 BC.
(c) 230 BC.
(d) 490 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

2. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?

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

4. 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?

5. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?

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