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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Creationism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Dualism.
(d) Reincarnation.

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

3. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?
(a) The pentagram.
(b) The sphere.
(c) The diamond.
(d) The hexagram.

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Algebra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did René Descartes live?

2. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?

3. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?

4. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

5. 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”?

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