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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(b) Recording or calculating area.
(c) Symbols for numerals.
(d) The diagonal of the square.

2. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(b) Havana, Cuba.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Del Norte, California.

3. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?
(a) The Hipparchus’ Calendar.
(b) The Berber Calendar.
(c) The Aristotelian Calendar.
(d) The Julian Calendar.

4. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?
(a) Northern Africa.
(b) South America.
(c) The Dutch Republic.
(d) Great Britain.

5. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) South America.
(c) Muslim Spain.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?

2. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

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

4. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?

5. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

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