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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?
(a) 50 BC.
(b) 36 BC.
(c) 23 BC.
(d) 10 BC.

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

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

7. 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) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Geometry.

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

9. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?
(a) 500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 3,000.

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

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

12. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?
(a) A heliocentric model.
(b) A geocentric model.
(c) A culture centric model.
(d) A lunar centric model.

13. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Kartikeya.
(b) Pavarti.
(c) Shiva.
(d) Ganesha.

14. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Subatomic program.
(b) The Drone program.
(c) The Eastern Invasion program.
(d) The Smart Ship program.

15. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?
(a) The solar system.
(b) The symbolic system.
(c) The decimal system.
(d) The geometrical system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

2. The Italian word “zefiro,” meaning “west wind” derived from what Latin and Greek word?

3. During what decade did Henry VIII reject the Papal authority?

4. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?

5. Where did Copernicus live?

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