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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?
(a) Athenism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Platonism.

7. 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 Roman Inquisition.
(b) The Medieval Inquisition.
(c) The Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The Catalina Inquisition.

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

9. 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) Projective physics.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Geometry.

10. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?
(a) Physics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

11. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?
(a) The Spanish Inquisition.
(b) The Roman conquest.
(c) The Greek conquest.
(d) The British Empire.

12. When did the Protestant Reformation begin?
(a) 1517.
(b) 1445.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1725.

13. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?
(a) The diamond.
(b) The pentagram.
(c) The sphere.
(d) The hexagram.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?

2. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

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

4. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?

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

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