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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The ancient Egyptians used math to create what type of calendar?
(a) A geocentric calendar.
(b) A solar calendar.
(c) A plexus calendar.
(d) A lunar calendar.

3. How is zero represented in Roman numerals?
(a) X.
(b) C.
(c) I.
(d) It is not represented.

4. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.
(b) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(c) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.
(d) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?

2. When did Nicholas of Cusa live?

3. Where did Copernicus live?

4. In 1996 and 1997, the USS Yorktown was equipped with a network of how many dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based computers running Windows NT 4.0?

5. The ancient Babylonians are credited with the creation of what calculation tool?

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