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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 listeners” in Greek?
(a) The akousmatikoi.
(b) The Hippasusikoi.
(c) The omnimatioi.
(d) The mathēmatikoi.

2. What term refers to the viewpoint that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Archism.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Rationalism.

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

4. The author states in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that Carl Gauss realized that real and imaginary numbers could be what?
(a) Integrated into fractions.
(b) Graphed together.
(c) Multiplied by zero.
(d) Divided by one another.

5. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.
(b) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(c) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(d) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what years did Georg Cantor live?

2. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?

3. The antiparticle of the electron is called what?

4. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?

5. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?

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