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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Nil.
(b) Sunya.
(c) Zeno.
(d) Siro.

2. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 780-850 AD.
(b) 240-200 BC.
(c) 159-201 AD.
(d) 410-500 AD.

3. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?
(a) 684-610 BC.
(b) 481-412 BC.
(c) 570-495 BC.
(d) 1200-1195 BC.

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

5. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?
(a) 10 BC.
(b) 36 BC.
(c) 23 BC.
(d) 50 BC.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

2. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?

3. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?

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

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

(see the answer key)

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