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The Ancient Greece: the cradle of music and maths

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

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Class
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1.

The Ancient Greek concept that music was the key to understanding "the fundamental interconnectedness of all thing in the universe" was called what?

a)

Music

b)

Pathos

c)

Plato

d)

Harmonia

2.

The number 0 has been a controversial number. True or false?

a)

True

b)

False

3.

According to Plato's thoughts, what does the Spheres' theory mean?

a)

The movement of the planets in the universe produces harmonies that only the Gods can hear.

b)

The Spheres offer you power and wisdom

c)

Was the result of Divine inspiration from a group of goddesses known as the Muses

d)

Each planet is related to a musical note from a pentatonic scale

4.

Negative numbers were considered absurd...

a)

only in the Ancient Greece

b)

by the Arabian mathematicians

c)

until their introduction by Gerolamo Cardano

d)

even during the 19th century

5.

Who were the Pythagoreans?

a)

Merchants and bankers who used Pythagoras' theorem?

b)

Mathematician-philosophers who were members of Pythagoras' school

c)

Ancient Greeks who studied mathematics

d)

People who discovered and proved the Pythagorean theorem

6.

Which of the following is the best way to describe the Greek concept of "ethos"?

a)

A guiding principle of understanding how music works

b)

A system to identify dangerous thoughts

c)

The importance of music in everyday life

d)

How one treats oneself and others

7.

What is a rational number?

a)

A perfect number

b)

The length of the diagonal of a square with side-length of 1

c)

A number that can be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

d)

A number that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two quantities

8.

Plato believed that dangerous music was music that:

a)

Encourage self-discipline

b)

Wasn't from Greece

c)

Deviated from the accepted norm

d)

Could be heard from space