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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?
(a) A geocentric model.
(b) A culture centric model.
(c) A heliocentric model.
(d) A lunar centric model.

2. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?
(a) A subtraction by zero error.
(b) An addition by zero error.
(c) A divide by zero error.
(d) A multiply by zero error.

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

4. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?

2. 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?

3. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?

4. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?

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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