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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?
(a) 1305-1339.
(b) 1501-1559.
(c) 1623-1698.
(d) 1401-1464.

2. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?
(a) 50 BC.
(b) 10 BC.
(c) 23 BC.
(d) 36 BC.

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

4. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?
(a) The Nidaros Cathedral.
(b) The Florence Cathedral.
(c) The Oulu Cathedral.
(d) Metz Cathedral.

5. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Creationism.
(c) Polytheism.
(d) Dualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did Georg Cantor live?

2. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

3. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?

5. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

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