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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 strait did Carthage control?
(a) Messina.
(b) Cook.
(c) Gibralter.
(d) Pentland.

2. What is the solid of a circle?
(a) Cone.
(b) Cube.
(c) Box.
(d) Sphere.

3. Which mathematicians probably used a decimal system of numbers?
(a) Thales and Pythagorus.
(b) Archimedes and Apollonius.
(c) Euclid and Aristotle.
(d) Hipparchus and Ptolemy.

4. Who was Archimedes' teacher of mathematics at the Museum?
(a) Apollonius of Rhodes.
(b) Conon of Samos.
(c) Zenodotus.
(d) Callimachus.

5. On what type of landform was the city located where Archimedes was born?
(a) Island.
(b) Peninsula.
(c) Isthmus.
(d) Archipelago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the solid of a triangle?

2. How many hours did the Greeks believe it took the earth to turn on its axis?

3. When did the Museum open in Alexandria?

4. Who was the French scientist who later added to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

5. If you took a sphere and made a cylinder whose base was the greatest circle of the sphere and whose height was the diameter of the sphere, how much larger would the surface of the cylinder be than the surface of the sphere?

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