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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. What was the name of the bugaboo that Archimedes' nurse would read about that frightened him when he was bad?
(a) Titan.
(b) Medea.
(c) Simonides.
(d) Mormo.

2. What principle did Archimedes discover that tells why some things float, some things sink, and some things rise into the air?
(a) Relativity.
(b) Buoyancy.
(c) Gravity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

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

4. How many times in his life did Archimedes leave Sicily and travel?
(a) Once.
(b) Never.
(c) Three times.
(d) Two times.

5. How long were the rolls that were used for Greek books?
(a) 75 feet long.
(b) 215 feet long.
(c) 120 feet long.
(d) 150 feet long.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money would a laborer earn in Archimedes' day?

2. Whom did Archimedes enjoy arguing with regarding whether pure reason was better than practical knowledge?

3. From which factories would ships bring manufactured goods?

4. Who dipped Archimedes in warm water and oil and then wrapped him from head to feet like an Indian papoose?

5. What branch of mathematics did Archimedes invent?

(see the answer key)

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