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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 point on which the lever turns or moves?
(a) Center point.
(b) Force.
(c) Fulcrum.
(d) Resistance.

2. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?
(a) The area of an isosceles triangle.
(b) The area of an obtuse triangle.
(c) The area of a right triangle.
(d) The area of an acute triangle.

3. What is pi?
(a) Approximately 5.1347.
(b) Approximately 3.14159.
(c) Approximately 4.6723.
(d) Approximately 2.1633.

4. Which branch of mathematics deals with motion and change?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Applied Mathematics.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Algebra.

5. Where was Archimedes taken when he had spent days staring at the King's crown and little else?
(a) To see the king.
(b) The baths.
(c) To his parents' home.
(d) To a place to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Archimedes, what did people use to figure the area of a circle?

2. What did Archimedes claim he could move if he had a place to stand?

3. What did Archimedes use to weigh the crown?

4. What metal did the King suspect had been substituted in the crown?

5. What did the King order after Archimedes moved his ship?

(see the answer key)

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