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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule in calculus uses derivatives to help evaluate limits involving indeterminate forms?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) L'Hôpital's rule.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

2. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 60.

3. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.
(b) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(c) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(d) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.

4. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Differentiation.
(b) Disintegration.
(c) Integration.
(d) Division.

5. Carl Gauss referred to mathematics as what?
(a) “The key to philosophy.”
(b) “The queen of sciences.”
(c) “The end of science.”
(d) “Theology’s twin.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?

2. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

3. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?

4. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?

5. The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from what?

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