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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Creationism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Dualism.
(d) Reincarnation.

2. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?
(a) The geometrical system.
(b) The symbolic system.
(c) The solar system.
(d) The decimal system.

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?
(a) 1st Century.
(b) 6th Century.
(c) 2nd Century.
(d) 5th Century.

4. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Platonism.
(d) Athenism.

5. What refers to the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics?
(a) Microquasar theory.
(b) Special relativity.
(c) Gravitational theory.
(d) General relativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical term refers to a function giving an exact pairing of the elements of two sets?

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

3. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?

4. 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?

5. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

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