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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately when did Aristotle live?
(a) 601-548 BC.
(b) 520-459 BC.
(c) 214-181 BC.
(d) 384-322 BC.

2. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Planck constant.
(c) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(d) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?
(a) The Roman conquest.
(b) The British Empire.
(c) The Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The Greek conquest.

4. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?
(a) 50.
(b) 100.
(c) 60.
(d) 30.

5. In quantum mechanics, the concept of de Broglie waves reflects what?
(a) The emergence of black holes.
(b) The wave-particle duality of matter.
(c) The gravitational pull of the earth’s poles.
(d) The Big Bang Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?

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

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

4. A primary difficulty in the creation of a “Theory of Everything” is that most attempts to apply quantum mechanics to the gravitational field in the same way as for the electromagnetic field fails due to the breakdown of what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” thermodynamics have taught us that there are many things we cannot do, such as building what?

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