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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 3.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

2. Approximately when did Johannes Kepler live?
(a) 1489-1550.
(b) 1611-1669.
(c) 1571-1630.
(d) 1501-1559.

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?
(a) 5th Century.
(b) 1st Century.
(c) 2nd Century.
(d) 6th Century.

4. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?
(a) A heliocentric model.
(b) A lunar centric model.
(c) A geocentric model.
(d) A culture centric model.

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
(a) Gods.
(b) Words.
(c) Shapes.
(d) Chakras.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?

2. What term refers to a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers?

3. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?

4. Where did the Renaissance begin?

5. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

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