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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?
(a) -100.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 15.

2. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?
(a) Quanta.
(b) Photons.
(c) Derivatives.
(d) Strings.

3. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(b) Europe and the Americas.
(c) Egypt and Babylonia.
(d) India and China.

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

5. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Circular movement.
(b) Elliptical orbits.
(c) Movement.
(d) Circular orbits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

2. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

3. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?

4. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the universe may collapse under its own gravity or what?

5. The author states in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that Carl Gauss realized that real and imaginary numbers could be what?

(see the answer key)

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