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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. Who was the first person to indicate latitude and longitude on a map?
(a) Apollonius.
(b) Eratosthenes.
(c) Zenodotus.
(d) Aristophanes.

2. How many books were in the library at Alexandria?
(a) About a quarter of a million.
(b) 100,000.
(c) Half a million.
(d) 750,000.

3. When Buffon, a French scientist, made a mirror following the description of Archimedes' mirrors, how far away could he set fire to wood?
(a) 150 feet.
(b) 75 feet.
(c) 100 feet.
(d) 50 feet.

4. Who were the first people to have ideas about gravity?
(a) Babylonian scientists.
(b) Persian scientists.
(c) Egyptian scientists.
(d) Greek scientists.

5. What principle did Archimedes discover that is one of the basic scientific tests of all the elements?
(a) Specific gravity.
(b) Conservation of Energy.
(c) Electromagnetism.
(d) Thermodynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the solid of a circle?

2. What would Archimedes' nurse read to him if he was good?

3. What did the Greeks called the smallest and fastest planet?

4. How often did three months have to be added to the Greek year?

5. How old was Archimedes when he received his name?

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