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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Measurement of a Circle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the work done on a lever called?
(a) Fulcrum.
(b) Force.
(c) Energy.
(d) Resistance.

2. What metal did the King suspect had been substituted in the crown?
(a) Silver.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Tin.
(d) Copper.

3. How much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?
(a) 30 cents a day.
(b) 60 cents a day.
(c) 45 cents a day.
(d) 50 cents a day.

4. Which branch of mathematics deals with distances to directions?
(a) Geometry.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Algebra.

5. Before Archimedes, what did people use to figure the area of a circle?
(a) Pentagons inside and outside the circle.
(b) Triangles inside and outside the circle.
(c) Octagons inside and outside the circle.
(d) Squares inside and outside the circle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is heavier than iron?

2. What is the work that is to be done with a lever called?

3. What is pi?

4. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

5. How much would a skilled craftsman earn in Archimedes' day?

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