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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?
(a) A hyperbole.
(b) A vector.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A vanishing point.

3. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?
(a) Art.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Rebirth.
(d) Beauty.

4. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) An Index of Arabic Books.
(b) A book of Annals.
(c) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
(d) The Death of the Prophet.

5. When was Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica first published?
(a) 1568.
(b) 1666.
(c) 1632.
(d) 1687.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was Giordano Bruno executed?

3. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?

4. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

5. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

(see the answer key)

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