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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. In 1996 and 1997, the USS Yorktown was equipped with a network of how many dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based computers running Windows NT 4.0?
(a) 10.
(b) 35.
(c) 27.
(d) 14.

6. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?
(a) An Index of Arabic Books.
(b) The Death of the Prophet.
(c) A book of Annals.
(d) Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

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

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

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

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

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

12. Aristotle was a student of what Classical Greek philosopher?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Archimedes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

2. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?

3. 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?

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

5. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?

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