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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 was Giordano Bruno born?
(a) 1548.
(b) 1459.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1366.

2. The system that equipped the USS Yorktown in 1996 and 1997 was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship’s complement by what percentage?
(a) 20%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 5%.

3. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?
(a) A lunar calendar.
(b) A plexus calendar.
(c) A solar calendar.
(d) A geocentric calendar.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?

2. Approximately when did Aristotle live?

3. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?

4. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?

5. When did the Protestant Reformation begin?

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