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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 branch of mathematics concerned with finding tangent lines to curves, areas under curves, minima and maxima, and other geometric and analytic problems?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Infinitesimal calculus.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

2. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

3. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Mayan Region.
(b) The Fertile Crescent.
(c) The Nile Region.
(d) The Twin Towers.

4. Approximately when did Copernicus live?
(a) 1325-1342.
(b) 1401-1452.
(c) 1473-1543.
(d) 1597-1652.

5. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) String theory.
(c) Differential equations.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?

2. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?

4. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?

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

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