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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Projective physics.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Algebra.

2. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was hung.
(b) He was shot by firing squad.
(c) He was given lethal injection.
(d) He was burned at the stake.

3. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?
(a) The geometrical system.
(b) The solar system.
(c) The decimal system.
(d) The symbolic system.

4. Approximately when did Aristotle live?
(a) 214-181 BC.
(b) 384-322 BC.
(c) 520-459 BC.
(d) 601-548 BC.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did René Descartes live?

2. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?

3. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?

4. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?

5. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?

(see the answer key)

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