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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Pythagoras.
(c) Parmenides.
(d) Aeschylus.

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

3. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Zeno.
(b) Siro.
(c) Nil.
(d) Sunya.

4. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Havana, Cuba.
(c) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(d) Del Norte, California.

5. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?
(a) Omega.
(b) Xi.
(c) Omicron.
(d) Upsilon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?
(a) 684-610 BC.
(b) 1200-1195 BC.
(c) 570-495 BC.
(d) 481-412 BC.

13. When did René Descartes live?
(a) 1922-1969.
(b) 1596-1650.
(c) 1625-1706.
(d) 1436-1501.

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

15. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Turns into an imaginary number.
(b) Remains unchanged.
(c) Decreases.
(d) Increases.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

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

3. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

4. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?

5. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

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