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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?
(a) 570-495 BC.
(b) 481-412 BC.
(c) 684-610 BC.
(d) 1200-1195 BC.

3. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) Havana, Cuba.
(b) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(c) Del Norte, California.
(d) New York, New York.

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

5. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?
(a) Northern Africa.
(b) South America.
(c) The Dutch Republic.
(d) Great Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?

2. During what years did Georg Cantor live?

3. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?

4. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?

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

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