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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) Havana, Cuba.
(b) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(c) Del Norte, California.
(d) New York, New York.

2. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 2nd to 6th centuries.
(b) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(c) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(d) The 12th to 17th centuries.

3. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?
(a) Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
(b) Sahl ibn Harun.
(c) Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
(d) Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī.

4. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Reincarnation.
(b) Dualism.
(c) Polytheism.
(d) Creationism.

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that the Indians borrowed Greek geometry but never worried about what?
(a) Recording or calculating area.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The diagonal of the square.
(d) Symbols for numerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?

2. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?

3. 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”?

4. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

5. Zeno of Elea followed what Eleatic school founder in believing that the nature of the universe was changeless and immobile?

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