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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Infinity.
(d) Thirteen.

2. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Siro.
(b) Zephyr.
(c) Sifr.
(d) Zeno.

3. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?
(a) A divide by zero error.
(b) A subtraction by zero error.
(c) A multiply by zero error.
(d) An addition by zero error.

4. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was burned at the stake.
(b) He was hung.
(c) He was shot by firing squad.
(d) He was given lethal injection.

5. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?
(a) The Julian Calendar.
(b) The Aristotelian Calendar.
(c) The Berber Calendar.
(d) The Hipparchus’ Calendar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Giordano Bruno from?

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?

3. Approximately when did Johannes Kepler live?

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

5. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?

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