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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ancient Babylonians had a number system based on what increment?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 60.
(d) 5.

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

3. What was the fifth element that Aristotle proposed, in addition to earth, water, fire, and air?
(a) Volume.
(b) Aether.
(c) Metal.
(d) Sanctities.

4. The Gregorian calendar replaced what calendar system in 1582?
(a) The Julian Calendar.
(b) The Berber Calendar.
(c) The Hipparchus’ Calendar.
(d) The Aristotelian Calendar.

5. What was the Pythagorean cult’s most sacred symbol because it contained the golden ratio?
(a) The sphere.
(b) The pentagram.
(c) The hexagram.
(d) The diamond.

6. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?
(a) Great Britain.
(b) Northern Africa.
(c) South America.
(d) The Dutch Republic.

7. The system that equipped the USS Yorktown in 1996 and 1997 was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship’s complement by what percentage?
(a) 5%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 30%.

8. What word did the Indians use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?
(a) Sunya.
(b) Siro.
(c) Nil.
(d) Zeno.

9. 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?
(a) 27.
(b) 10.
(c) 35.
(d) 14.

10. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Del Norte, California.
(c) Havana, Cuba.
(d) Cape Charles, Virginia.

11. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Dualism.
(b) Polytheism.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Reincarnation.

12. Zero is the only number that when added to itself does what?
(a) Increases.
(b) Remains unchanged.
(c) Turns into an imaginary number.
(d) Decreases.

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

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

15. Ptolemy wrote what mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths?
(a) Physics.
(b) The Golden Ratio.
(c) The Epicurean.
(d) The Almagest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?

3. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?

4. What symbol in the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70?

5. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

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