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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Take our free Zero quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

In Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the author states that the Hubble telescope saw that most galaxies were flying away from one another by using red-shifting and blue-shifting effects, the cosmological equivalent of what?

2.

Who proposed that a static universe could be viable if there was an alternative explanation of redshift due to a mechanism that would cause light to lose energy as it traveled through space?

3.

The author asserts in Chapter 6, “Infinity's Twin” that with the introduction of imaginary numbers, the fundamental theorem of what mathematical branch was discovered?

4.

When did Sir Isaac Newton live?

5.

Where did Copernicus live?

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