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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Negative numbers first appeared where historically, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) Europe and the Americas.
(b) In Mayan and Native American cultures.
(c) India and China.
(d) Egypt and Babylonia.

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

4. When was Bernhard Riemann born?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1629.
(d) 1826.

5. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?
(a) Quantum foam.
(b) Quantum disparity.
(c) Quantum gravity.
(d) Quantum memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that by employing the concept of infinity, Johannes Kepler showed that ellipses and what were the same?

2. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?

3. Whom does the author claim the Greeks learned about astronomy from in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?

4. The name “electron” was introduced in 1891 by what Irish physicist?

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

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