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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Nile Region.
(b) The Twin Towers.
(c) The Fertile Crescent.
(d) The Mayan Region.

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin,” geometry shows that mathematically the north and south poles of spheres do what?
(a) Pull away from one another.
(b) Repeat one another.
(c) Repel one another.
(d) Turn into one another.

4. The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from what?
(a) Zero.
(b) One.
(c) Itself.
(d) Two.

5. 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) 27.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?

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

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?

4. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?

5. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?

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