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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Archimedes and His Lever.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long was Ptolemy's Museum the center of Greek learning?
(a) 750 years.
(b) 500 years.
(c) 1,000 years.
(d) 300 years.

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

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

4. When was the city of Alexandria founded?
(a) 652 B.C.
(b) 332 B.C.
(c) 512 B.C.
(d) 429 B.C.

5. What was the mathematical subject that Archimedes did not write about?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Geometry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Archimedes' father's occupation?

2. To what did a series of ropes and wheels run from King Hiero's ship?

3. On what type of landform was the city located where Archimedes was born?

4. What science did Archimedes begin that deals with the actions of forces on things?

5. What was the name of the bugaboo that Archimedes' nurse would read about that frightened him when he was bad?

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