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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Del Norte, California.
(c) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(d) Havana, Cuba.

3. 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 Babylonian system.
(b) Cartesian coordinate system.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Pythagorean system.

4. 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 Medieval Inquisition.
(c) The Roman Inquisition.
(d) The Spanish Inquisition.

5. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
(a) Shapes.
(b) Chakras.
(c) Gods.
(d) Words.

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

7. During what decade did Henry VIII reject the Papal authority?
(a) The 1550s.
(b) The 1490s.
(c) The 1620s.
(d) The 1530s.

8. 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.

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

10. Where did Copernicus live?
(a) Rome.
(b) Prussia.
(c) France.
(d) Egypt.

11. 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?
(a) An addition by zero error.
(b) A multiply by zero error.
(c) A subtraction by zero error.
(d) A divide by zero error.

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

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

14. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Reprimand.
(c) Dividend.
(d) Quantization.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?

2. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?

3. When did René Descartes live?

4. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?

5. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

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