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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?
(a) Aether.
(b) Volume.
(c) Metal.
(d) Sanctities.

2. What refers to a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th Century?
(a) The Roman Inquisition.
(b) The Catalina Inquisition.
(c) The Medieval Inquisition.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

3. 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.

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(b) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(c) The 12th to 17th centuries.
(d) The 2nd to 6th centuries.

5. 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 Pythagorean system.
(c) The Babylonian system.
(d) Cartesian coordinate system.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the ratio of zero to any number is what?

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

3. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

4. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?

5. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

(see the answer key)

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