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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Golden Ratio.
(c) Cartesian coordinate system.
(d) The Babylonian system.

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?
(a) The Hippasusikoi.
(b) The akousmatikoi.
(c) The mathēmatikoi.
(d) The omnimatioi.

3. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?
(a) 50.
(b) 60.
(c) 30.
(d) 100.

4. 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?
(a) Motion.
(b) God.
(c) Time.
(d) The Devil.

5. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?
(a) It is not represented.
(b) C.
(c) I.
(d) X.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?

5. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?

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