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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?
(a) -100.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 15.

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?
(a) The British Empire.
(b) The Roman conquest.
(c) The Greek conquest.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
(a) Shapes.
(b) Words.
(c) Gods.
(d) Chakras.

4. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was shot by firing squad.
(b) He was burned at the stake.
(c) He was given lethal injection.
(d) He was hung.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?

2. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

3. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?

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

5. 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?

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