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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Quiz

Charles Seife
This Study Guide consists of approximately 25 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Zero.

Take our free Zero quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Filippo Brunelleschi was born in approximately what year?

2.

According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” thermodynamics led physicists to believe that light was not a particle but what?

3.

Who proposed that a static universe could be viable if there was an alternative explanation of redshift due to a mechanism that would cause light to lose energy as it traveled through space?

4.

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

5.

What refers to a special type of element of a set with respect to a binary operation on that set, leaving other elements unchanged when combined with them?

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