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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Socrates.

2. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Nile Region.
(b) The Mayan Region.
(c) The Twin Towers.
(d) The Fertile Crescent.

3. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?
(a) The stick-stone.
(b) The calculator.
(c) The abacus.
(d) The computer.

4. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Eastern Invasion program.
(b) The Subatomic program.
(c) The Smart Ship program.
(d) The Drone program.

5. 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?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Projective physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

2. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?

3. The ancient Babylonians had a number system based on what increment?

4. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

5. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

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