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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The War Machines of Archimedes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the Greek word "mathema" from which mathematics is derived?
(a) Material.
(b) Methods.
(c) Science.
(d) Numbers.

2. What great Greek teacher who lived more than one hundred years before Archimedes believed it was important to learn geometry?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

3. How many sides did the polygons have that Archimedes used to determine the area of a circle?
(a) 112.
(b) 36.
(c) 8.
(d) 96.

4. What field of mathematics is necessary to create rockets and space travel?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Computation.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Algebra.

5. What science did Archimedes begin that deals with the pressure of liquids?
(a) Hydrostatics.
(b) Dynamics.
(c) Biophysics.
(d) Oceanography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constellations did Archimedes' teacher of mathematics discover?

2. How much larger is the sun than the moon?

3. Who was Archimedes' teacher of mathematics at the Museum?

4. How old would Archimedes have been when he moved out of the women's quarters?

5. When do most people believe that the first real understanding of the laws of gravitation began?

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