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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Georg Cantor is best known as the inventor of what fundamental theory in mathematics?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) Quantum theory.
(c) Set theory.
(d) String theory.

2. The USS Yorktown was used as the test-bed for what Navy program beginning in 1996?
(a) The Eastern Invasion program.
(b) The Drone program.
(c) The Subatomic program.
(d) The Smart Ship program.

3. 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) Differentiation.
(b) Integration.
(c) Division.
(d) Disintegration.

4. What kind of stars did the Hubble space telescope use to measure the size of the universe?
(a) Hypergiant stars.
(b) White dwarfs.
(c) RR Lyrae stars.
(d) Cepheid stars.

5. Where was Giordano Bruno from?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?

2. What mathematical term refers to a function giving an exact pairing of the elements of two sets?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” some physicists think the merging of a particle and a black hole creates a tachyon or a particle with imaginary mass that could do what?

5. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?

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