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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Protestant Reformation begin?
(a) 1445.
(b) 1517.
(c) 1623.
(d) 1725.

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
(a) The akousmatikoi.
(b) The omnimatioi.
(c) The Hippasusikoi.
(d) The mathēmatikoi.

3. What refers to a branch of mathematical logic and computer science that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) String theory.
(c) Computability theory.
(d) Category theory.

4. What term in theoretical physics refers to an extension of string theory in which 11 dimensions of spacetime are identified?
(a) Big Bang theory.
(b) M-theory.
(c) Planck theory.
(d) Space theory.

5. Where did the Renaissance begin?
(a) Italy.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Georg Cantor is best known as the inventor of what fundamental theory in mathematics?

2. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?

3. What term refers to a physical constant that is the quantum of action in quantum mechanics?

4. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?

5. In Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the author states that the Hubble telescope saw that most galaxies were flying away from one another by using red-shifting and blue-shifting effects, the cosmological equivalent of what?

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