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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
(a) The omnimatioi.
(b) The akousmatikoi.
(c) The Hippasusikoi.
(d) The mathēmatikoi.

2. Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?
(a) 1414.
(b) 1520.
(c) 1377.
(d) 1601.

3. During what decade did Henry VIII reject the Papal authority?
(a) The 1490s.
(b) The 1620s.
(c) The 1530s.
(d) The 1550s.

4. In particle physics, what refers to a proposed symmetry of nature relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons and fermions?
(a) Verisimilitude.
(b) A limit.
(c) A black hole.
(d) Supersymmetry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of what?

2. 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?

3. In the middle of the 20th Century, Hendrik Casmir and what other Dutch physicist proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms?

4. Absolute zero has no energy and is unattainable for what reason?

5. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?

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