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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What in graphical perspective refers to a point in the picture plane π that is determined by a line in space?
(a) A black hole.
(b) A hyperbole.
(c) A vanishing point.
(d) A vector.

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

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

5. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 159-201 AD.
(b) 780-850 AD.
(c) 240-200 BC.
(d) 410-500 AD.

Short Answer Questions

1. The preclassic Maya and their neighbors supposedly developed the concept of zero by what year?

2. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?

3. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?

4. During what decade did Henry VIII reject the Papal authority?

5. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

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