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

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

3. Where is the center of balance on a spoon?
(a) Near the end of the spoon's handle.
(b) At the bowl of the spoon.
(c) In the center.
(d) Near the bowl of the spoon.

4. Who estimated the circumference of the earth to within one hundred miles?
(a) Eratosthenes.
(b) Anaxagorus.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) Aristarchus.

5. What constellations did Archimedes' teacher of mathematics discover?
(a) Coma Berenices.
(b) Lochium Funus.
(c) Quadrans Muralis.
(d) Argo Navis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means balance?

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

3. 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?

4. How many books were included in Euclid's "The Elements"?

5. What is not an example of a lever?

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