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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?
(a) Frechet mean.
(b) Mean of function.
(c) Harmonic mean.
(d) Power mean.

2. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Subatomic program.
(b) The Drone program.
(c) The Smart Ship program.
(d) The Eastern Invasion program.

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

4. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?
(a) A reflecting telescope.
(b) An Alhazen’s telescope.
(c) A chromatic telescope.
(d) A refracting telescope.

5. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Italy.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

3. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?

4. What rule in calculus uses derivatives to help evaluate limits involving indeterminate forms?

5. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

(see the answer key)

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