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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately when did Copernicus live?
(a) 1597-1652.
(b) 1325-1342.
(c) 1473-1543.
(d) 1401-1452.

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

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 12th to 17th centuries.
(b) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(c) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(d) The 2nd to 6th centuries.

5. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?
(a) A vanishing point.
(b) A vector.
(c) A hyperbole.
(d) A black hole.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?

4. 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?

5. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

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