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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cartesian coordinate system.
(d) The Babylonian system.

2. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?
(a) I.
(b) It is not represented.
(c) X.
(d) C.

3. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

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

5. What term refers to the viewpoint that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge?
(a) Rationalism.
(b) Archism.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Dadaism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?

3. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?

4. What does the author refer to as “zero’s twin” in the book?

5. When did René Descartes live?

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