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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Devil.
(b) God.
(c) Time.
(d) Motion.

2. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Turns into an imaginary number.
(b) Remains unchanged.
(c) Increases.
(d) Decreases.

3. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) The Death of the Prophet.
(b) An Index of Arabic Books.
(c) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
(d) A book of Annals.

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(b) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(c) The 12th to 17th centuries.
(d) The 2nd to 6th centuries.

5. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) France.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

3. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?

4. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?

5. Where did Copernicus live?

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