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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Blaise Pascal’s theological beliefs? How was zero viewed in his beliefs?

2. How does the author assert zero’s existence has been responsible for mathematical progress in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?

3. What paradox of Zeno of Elea’s is presented by the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

4. How did zero enter into Indian mathematics, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

5. What inventions is Blaise Pascal credited with, according to the author in Chapter 4, “The Infinite God of Nothing”?

6. What is the focus of the book, as established by the author in Chapter 0, “Null and Void”?

7. How does the author describe Islam’s history in the seventh century in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

8. How are multiplication and division involving zero described in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?

9. Where does the author claim zero was “born” in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”? How was zero involved in early mathematics?

10. How did Aristotle approach the concept of zero, according to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

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