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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?
(a) Sahl ibn Harun.
(b) Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
(c) Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.
(d) Caliph Harun al-Rashid.

3. What term refers to a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping?
(a) Omicron.
(b) Limit.
(c) Black hole.
(d) Derivative.

4. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) Italy.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

5. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Disintegration.
(b) Integration.
(c) Division.
(d) Differentiation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?

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

3. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

4. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

5. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity's Twin,” “i” appears whenever one takes the square root of what?

(see the answer key)

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