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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?
(a) A vector.
(b) A vanishing point.
(c) A black hole.
(d) A hyperbole.

3. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?
(a) 1305-1339.
(b) 1501-1559.
(c) 1623-1698.
(d) 1401-1464.

4. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?
(a) Rebirth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Destruction.
(d) Art.

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

6. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Europe and the Americas.
(b) India and China.
(c) Egypt and Babylonia.
(d) In Mayan and Native American cultures.

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

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

9. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?
(a) Easter.
(b) Pascha.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Passover.

10. 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?
(a) The Pythagorean system.
(b) The Golden Ratio.
(c) The Babylonian system.
(d) Cartesian coordinate system.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

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

4. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?

5. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?

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