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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately when did Copernicus live?
(a) 1401-1452.
(b) 1473-1543.
(c) 1325-1342.
(d) 1597-1652.

2. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?
(a) Shulba Sutras.
(b) The Kartikeya.
(c) Shavi Sutras.
(d) Yogi Sutras.

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

4. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?
(a) Seven.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) One.
(d) Infinity.

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

6. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?
(a) The abacus.
(b) The computer.
(c) The stick-stone.
(d) The calculator.

7. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 60.

8. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?
(a) Polytheism.
(b) Omnitheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Atertheism.

9. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?
(a) Sanctities.
(b) Volume.
(c) Metal.
(d) Aether.

10. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?
(a) 1.
(b) 15.
(c) 0.
(d) -100.

11. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) Italy.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Great Britain.

12. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?
(a) A lunar calendar.
(b) A plexus calendar.
(c) A solar calendar.
(d) A geocentric calendar.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?

2. 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?

3. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?

4. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?

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