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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Archimedes and the Centers of Gravity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the study of shapes in space?
(a) Arithmetic.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Applied Mathematics.

2. What Greek poet would Archimedes have studied?
(a) Aeschylus.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Homer.
(d) Antimachus.

3. Which branch of mathematics deals with distances to directions?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Trigonometry.

4. What is a good project to learn about centers of gravity?
(a) Make a balance scale.
(b) Experiment with spoons.
(c) Experiment with rulers.
(d) Make a mobile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the value of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?

2. How many planets did Greek astronomers observe?

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

4. Which astronomers believed that the earth was inside a hollow iron sphere?

5. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

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