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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Archimedes and Astronomy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days were in the Greek year?
(a) 354.
(b) 334.
(c) 360.
(d) 345.

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

3. Who believed that the earth was a flat rectangle with their country in the middle?
(a) Persians.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Babylonians.
(d) Greeks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What hobgoblin would Archimedes' read about to scare him if he was bad?

2. How many books were in the library at Alexandria?

3. Where was Archimedes taken when he had spent days staring at the King's crown and little else?

4. Who was the French scientist who later added to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

5. When was Euclid born?

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