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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 60.
(d) 20.

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?
(a) 2nd Century.
(b) 6th Century.
(c) 5th Century.
(d) 1st Century.

3. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Fertile Crescent.
(b) The Nile Region.
(c) The Mayan Region.
(d) The Twin Towers.

4. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Physics.

5. The author notes in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the West resisted the concept of zero for how many years?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?

2. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

3. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?

5. Approximately when was Zeno of Elea born?

(see the answer key)

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