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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Easter.
(c) Passover.
(d) Pascha.

2. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Aeschylus.

3. What refers to a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th Century?
(a) The Medieval Inquisition.
(b) The Spanish Inquisition.
(c) The Catalina Inquisition.
(d) The Roman Inquisition.

4. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?
(a) Art.
(b) Rebirth.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Destruction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?

2. The ancient Babylonians had a number system based on what increment?

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?

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

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

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