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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Pavarti.
(b) Ganesha.
(c) Kartikeya.
(d) Shiva.

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

4. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Remains unchanged.
(b) Decreases.
(c) Turns into an imaginary number.
(d) Increases.

5. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?
(a) Atertheism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Omnitheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

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

3. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?

4. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

5. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?

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