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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?
(a) Zyloph.
(b) Zephyrus.
(c) Sifr.
(d) Zebra.

2. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?
(a) The hexagram.
(b) The sphere.
(c) The pentagram.
(d) The diamond.

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

4. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?
(a) Metal.
(b) Aether.
(c) Sanctities.
(d) Volume.

5. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(b) India and China.
(c) Europe and the Americas.
(d) Egypt and Babylonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

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

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?

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

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