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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The absolute value of a number may be thought of as its distance from what?
(a) Zero.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Itself.

2. 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) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 5.

3. During what years did Georg Cantor live?
(a) 1777-1836.
(b) 1811-1878.
(c) 1845-1918.
(d) 1689-1759.

4. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Division.
(b) Integration.
(c) Disintegration.
(d) Differentiation.

5. When was Jean le Rond d'Alembert born?
(a) 1659.
(b) 1701.
(c) 1717.
(d) 1811.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?

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

3. Who founded the House of Wisdom that was established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq?

4. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?

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

(see the answer key)

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