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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) 214-181 BC.
(b) 384-322 BC.
(c) 520-459 BC.
(d) 601-548 BC.

2. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 5.
(b) 60.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

3. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1611.
(b) 1646.
(c) 1559.
(d) 1711.

4. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?
(a) Art.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Destruction.

5. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Reprimand.
(c) Quantization.
(d) Dividend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers?

2. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

3. What kind of stars did the Hubble space telescope use to measure the size of the universe?

4. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?

5. What term refers to the production of nuclei other than those of the lightest isotope of hydrogen during the early phases of the universe?

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