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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?
(a) Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
(b) Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.
(c) Sahl ibn Harun.
(d) Hunayn ibn Ishaq.

2. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Orthodoxy.
(b) Hasidism.
(c) Sufism.
(d) Kabbalism.

3. In 1996 and 1997, the USS Yorktown was equipped with a network of how many dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based computers running Windows NT 4.0?
(a) 35.
(b) 27.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Geometry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?

2. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?

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

4. 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”?

5. 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?

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