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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Orthodoxy.
(b) Sufism.
(c) Kabbalism.
(d) Hasidism.

2. The sum of 0 numbers is 0, and the product of 0 numbers is what?
(a) -1.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) ∞.

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

4. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?
(a) The Julian Calendar.
(b) The Aristotelian Calendar.
(c) The Berber Calendar.
(d) The Hipparchus’ Calendar.

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(b) The diagonal of the square.
(c) Symbols for numerals.
(d) Recording or calculating area.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What mathematical term refers to a function giving an exact pairing of the elements of two sets?

3. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

4. Bosonic string theory was developed in what decade?

5. A primary difficulty in the creation of a “Theory of Everything” is that most attempts to apply quantum mechanics to the gravitational field in the same way as for the electromagnetic field fails due to the breakdown of what?

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