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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
(a) The Babylonians.
(b) The Mayans.
(c) The Egyptians.
(d) The Romans.

2. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 230 BC.
(b) 560 BC.
(c) 459 BC.
(d) 490 BC.

3. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?
(a) The Babylonian system.
(b) Cartesian coordinate system.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Pythagorean system.

4. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?
(a) A solar calendar.
(b) A lunar calendar.
(c) A plexus calendar.
(d) A geocentric calendar.

5. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Parmenides.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?

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

4. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

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