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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Physics.

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?
(a) The akousmatikoi.
(b) The mathēmatikoi.
(c) The omnimatioi.
(d) The Hippasusikoi.

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) The diagonal of the square.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) Symbols for numerals.
(d) Recording or calculating area.

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

5. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Zeno.
(b) Siro.
(c) Sunya.
(d) Nil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?

3. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?

4. Approximately when did Aristotle live?

5. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?

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