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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?
(a) The Oulu Cathedral.
(b) The Florence Cathedral.
(c) The Nidaros Cathedral.
(d) Metz Cathedral.

2. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?
(a) Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
(b) Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.
(c) Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
(d) Sahl ibn Harun.

3. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Dualism.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Polytheism.

4. What refers to a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th Century?
(a) The Catalina Inquisition.
(b) The Roman Inquisition.
(c) The Medieval Inquisition.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 60.
(b) 5.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

6. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the ratio of zero to any number is what?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) ∞.
(d) 1.

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

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

9. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 490 BC.
(b) 459 BC.
(c) 560 BC.
(d) 230 BC.

10. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?
(a) Plato.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Pythagoras.

11. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Projective physics.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

12. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Fertile Crescent.
(b) The Mayan Region.
(c) The Nile Region.
(d) The Twin Towers.

13. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?
(a) Geometry.
(b) The Zeno theorem.
(c) The dialectic.
(d) Algebra.

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

15. 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) Ancient Egypt.
(b) South America.
(c) Muslim Spain.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?

3. Approximately when did Aristotle live?

4. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?

5. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

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