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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What god within Hinduism represents both creator and destroyer?
(a) Shiva.
(b) Pavarti.
(c) Kartikeya.
(d) Ganesha.
2. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(b) The 12th to 17th centuries.
(c) The 2nd to 6th centuries.
(d) The 9th to 13th centuries.
3. Copernicus developed what kind of model of the universe?
(a) A culture centric model.
(b) A geocentric model.
(c) A heliocentric model.
(d) A lunar centric model.
4. Aristotle referred to Zeno of Elea as the inventor of what?
(a) Geometry.
(b) The dialectic.
(c) The Zeno theorem.
(d) Algebra.
5. In what written work did Aristotle describe Zeno of Elea’s paradox of motion?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Physics.
Short Answer Questions
1. René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician who spent most of his adult life where?
2. How many minutes made up an hour in the ancient Greek system?
3. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
4. According to the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing,” the Pythagorean view tied numbers to what?
5. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the learners” in Greek?
Short Essay Questions
1. What discoveries did Archimedes make in the mathematical world?
2. What is the focus of the book, as established by the author in Chapter 0, “Null and Void”?
3. What paradox of Zeno of Elea’s is presented by the author in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing”?
4. What mathematical properties of zero presented problems in the ancient world, according to the author in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?
5. How did the Protestant Reformation influence the Aristotelian philosophy in the West?
6. How are multiplication and division involving zero described in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?
7. What theory was developed through Blaise Pascal’s mathematical approach to theology?
8. How does the concept of zero relate to the beliefs of Hinduism?
9. How did zero enter into Babylonian mathematics, according to the author in Chapter 1, “Nothing Doing”?
10. What mathematical advancements were made by the ancient Egyptians?
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