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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 the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?
(a) Frechet mean.
(b) Mean of function.
(c) Power mean.
(d) Harmonic mean.

2. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.
(b) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(c) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(d) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.

3. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pythagoras.

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) The diagonal of the square.
(b) Symbols for numerals.
(c) Recording or calculating area.
(d) The Pythagorean Theorem.

5. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Sunya.
(b) Siro.
(c) Zeno.
(d) Nil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?

2. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?

3. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

4. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

5. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?

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