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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately when did Pythagoras live?
(a) 684-610 BC.
(b) 570-495 BC.
(c) 1200-1195 BC.
(d) 481-412 BC.

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

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

5. What term refers to an argument that produces an inconsistency?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Dividend.
(c) Reprimand.
(d) Quantization.

6. How was Giordano Bruno executed?
(a) He was shot by firing squad.
(b) He was burned at the stake.
(c) He was hung.
(d) He was given lethal injection.

7. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?
(a) Monotheism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Atertheism.
(d) Omnitheism.

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

9. What region in the Middle East is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization?
(a) The Twin Towers.
(b) The Nile Region.
(c) The Mayan Region.
(d) The Fertile Crescent.

10. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Orthodoxy.
(b) Kabbalism.
(c) Sufism.
(d) Hasidism.

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

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

13. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?
(a) Geometry.
(b) The Zeno theorem.
(c) Algebra.
(d) The dialectic.

14. What refers to a system of tribunals developed by the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church during the second half of the 16th Century?
(a) The Spanish Inquisition.
(b) The Catalina Inquisition.
(c) The Roman Inquisition.
(d) The Medieval Inquisition.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The reason for the reform of the Gregorian calendar was to solidify what Christian holiday to a particular time of year?

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?

4. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

5. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

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