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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) "Immaterialism."
(b) “The Golden Ratio.”
(c) “String theory.”
(d) “Calculus.”

2. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) South America.
(b) Muslim Spain.
(c) Rome.
(d) Ancient Egypt.

3. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 410-500 AD.
(b) 780-850 AD.
(c) 159-201 AD.
(d) 240-200 BC.

4. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?
(a) Quantum foam.
(b) Quantum memory.
(c) Quantum disparity.
(d) Quantum gravity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?

2. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?

3. The ancient Babylonians had a number system based on what increment?

4. In what year did Albert Einstein publish a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect, leading to the quantum revolution?

5. In what year was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his “discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”?

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