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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was given lethal injection.
(b) He was hung.
(c) He was shot by firing squad.
(d) He was burned at the stake.

2. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?
(a) Sifr.
(b) Zephyrus.
(c) Zebra.
(d) Zyloph.

3. Approximately when did Copernicus live?
(a) 1401-1452.
(b) 1597-1652.
(c) 1325-1342.
(d) 1473-1543.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?

2. 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?

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

4. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

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

(see the answer key)

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