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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Archimedes and King Heiro's Crown.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what did a series of ropes and wheels run from King Hiero's ship?
(a) A helix.
(b) An ellipse.
(c) A parabola.
(d) A hyperbola.

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

3. What laws did Archimedes discover that led to machines that could move heavy loads or increase speeds, or change directions?
(a) Laws of the pulley and lever.
(b) Laws of the wedge.
(c) Laws of the wheel and axle.
(d) Laws of inclined plane.

4. When was Archimedes born?
(a) 287 B.C.
(b) 294 B.C.
(c) 315 B.C.
(d) 274 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Archimedes create that told him the density of liquids?

2. What was the mathematical subject that Archimedes did not write about?

3. What constellations did Archimedes' teacher of mathematics discover?

4. What principle did Archimedes discover that tells why some things float, some things sink, and some things rise into the air?

5. How old would Archimedes have been when he moved out of the women's quarters?

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