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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What branch of mathematics are the ancient Egyptians credited with creating in order to successfully build objects to block the flooding of the Nile River each year?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Projective physics.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Algebra.

2. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?
(a) Atertheism.
(b) Monotheism.
(c) Omnitheism.
(d) Polytheism.

3. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?
(a) 230 BC.
(b) 459 BC.
(c) 560 BC.
(d) 490 BC.

4. Filippo Brunelleschi famously engineered the dome of what cathedral?
(a) The Oulu Cathedral.
(b) Metz Cathedral.
(c) The Nidaros Cathedral.
(d) The Florence Cathedral.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

3. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?

4. According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Jean le Rond d'Alembert had satisfied the mathematician's need for what?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians,” Leibniz wanted to use infinitesimals in calculus which were termed what?

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