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

2. 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) Muslim Spain.
(b) South America.
(c) Ancient Egypt.
(d) Rome.

3. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?
(a) 1377.
(b) 1520.
(c) 1414.
(d) 1601.

4. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?
(a) 1459.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1366.
(d) 1623.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Renaissance begin?

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

3. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

4. Where did Copernicus live?

5. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?

(see the answer key)

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