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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(b) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.
(c) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(d) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.

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

3. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?
(a) The Pythagorean system.
(b) Cartesian coordinate system.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Babylonian system.

4. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?
(a) The computer.
(b) The stick-stone.
(c) The calculator.
(d) The abacus.

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

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. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?

3. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

4. The system that equipped the USS Yorktown in 1996 and 1997 was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship’s complement by what percentage?

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

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