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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Havana, Cuba.
(c) Del Norte, California.
(d) Cape Charles, Virginia.

2. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Fertile Crescent.
(b) The Nile Region.
(c) The Twin Towers.
(d) The Mayan Region.

3. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?
(a) The Spanish Inquisition.
(b) The British Empire.
(c) The Roman conquest.
(d) The Greek conquest.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?

2. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

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?

4. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?

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

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