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

2. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) France.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Italy.
(d) Spain.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?

2. 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?

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

4. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?

5. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the early counting systems of prehistoric mathematics in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?

2. How did the Protestant Reformation influence the Aristotelian philosophy in the West?

3. What results came about when Indian mathematicians began separating numbers from shapes, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

4. How are ancient Babylonian mathematics described in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?

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

6. How did mathematics and the concept of zero evolve in India through the 5th Century AD?

7. What mathematical advancements were made by the ancient Egyptians?

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

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

10. What discoveries did Archimedes make in the mathematical world?

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