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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?
(a) Shavi Sutras.
(b) Yogi Sutras.
(c) Shulba Sutras.
(d) The Kartikeya.

2. Lord Kelvin is well known for determining the correct value of absolute zero. Absolute zero is approximately what temperature Celsius?
(a) -32 degrees.
(b) -125.32 degrees.
(c) -59 degrees.
(d) -273.15 degrees.

3. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aeschylus.
(d) Pythagoras.

4. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?
(a) A subtraction by zero error.
(b) An addition by zero error.
(c) A multiply by zero error.
(d) A divide by zero error.

5. What mathematical term refers to a function that preserves distinctness by never mapping distinct elements of its domain to the same element of its codomain?
(a) Injective function.
(b) Differential equation.
(c) Bijective function.
(d) Derivative function.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?

3. Where did Copernicus live?

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the ratio of zero to any number is what?

5. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?

(see the answer key)

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