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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?
(a) It is not represented.
(b) C.
(c) X.
(d) I.

2. Approximately when did Aristotle live?
(a) 214-181 BC.
(b) 601-548 BC.
(c) 384-322 BC.
(d) 520-459 BC.

3. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 410-500 AD.
(b) 780-850 AD.
(c) 240-200 BC.
(d) 159-201 AD.

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 2nd to 6th centuries.
(b) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(c) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(d) The 12th to 17th centuries.

5. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Babylonians.
(c) The Egyptians.
(d) The Mayans.

6. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 10.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

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

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

9. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?
(a) Time.
(b) The Devil.
(c) Motion.
(d) God.

10. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?
(a) Zebra.
(b) Zephyrus.
(c) Zyloph.
(d) Sifr.

11. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?
(a) Mean of function.
(b) Power mean.
(c) Harmonic mean.
(d) Frechet mean.

12. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

13. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was hung.
(b) He was shot by firing squad.
(c) He was burned at the stake.
(d) He was given lethal injection.

14. Where did Copernicus live?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Rome.
(c) Prussia.
(d) France.

15. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?
(a) Robert Wexler.
(b) Maimonides.
(c) Shlomo ben Aderet.
(d) Nahmanides.

Short Answer Questions

1. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?

2. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

3. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?

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

5. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?

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