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

2. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Kartikeya.
(b) Ganesha.
(c) Pavarti.
(d) Shiva.

3. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 490 BC.
(b) 459 BC.
(c) 230 BC.
(d) 560 BC.

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

5. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?
(a) Shlomo ben Aderet.
(b) Nahmanides.
(c) Robert Wexler.
(d) Maimonides.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?

3. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?

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

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

(see the answer key)

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