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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) The Golden Ratio.
(c) String theory.
(d) Differential equations.

2. 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?
(a) A multiply by zero error.
(b) A divide by zero error.
(c) A subtraction by zero error.
(d) An addition by zero error.

3. In Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the author states that the Hubble telescope saw that most galaxies were flying away from one another by using red-shifting and blue-shifting effects, the cosmological equivalent of what?
(a) The differential effect.
(b) The radon effect.
(c) The Heisenberg effect.
(d) The Doppler effect.

4. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the universe may collapse under its own gravity or what?
(a) Become eternal.
(b) Expand forever.
(c) Devour its own gravity.
(d) Remain stagnant.

5. 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 gravity.
(c) Quantum memory.
(d) Quantum disparity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

2. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

3. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

4. Carl Gauss referred to mathematics as what?

5. When did the Protestant Reformation begin?

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