Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Charles Seife
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” some physicists think the merging of a particle and a black hole creates a tachyon or a particle with imaginary mass that could do what?
(a) Devour the black hole.
(b) Cross into space.
(c) Move backward in time.
(d) Move forward in time.

2. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) Rome.
(c) Muslim Spain.
(d) South America.

3. Lord Kelvin is well known for determining the correct value of absolute zero. Absolute zero is approximately what temperature Celsius?
(a) -59 degrees.
(b) -32 degrees.
(c) -273.15 degrees.
(d) -125.32 degrees.

4. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Pythagoras.
(d) Parmenides.

5. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?
(a) The decimal system.
(b) The symbolic system.
(c) The geometrical system.
(d) The solar system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

2. The word “Renaissance” derives from what meaning?

3. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

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

5. Approximately when was Giordano Bruno born?

(see the answer key)

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