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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?
(a) 1601.
(b) 1377.
(c) 1414.
(d) 1520.

2. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
(a) The Egyptians.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Babylonians.
(d) The Mayans.

3. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?
(a) 1717.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1659.

4. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “Calculus.”
(b) “String theory.”
(c) "Immaterialism."
(d) “The Golden Ratio.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?

2. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

3. How was Giordano Bruno executed?

4. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

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