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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. Who was the first person to indicate latitude and longitude on a map?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Apollonius.
(c) Zenodotus.
(d) Eratosthenes.

2. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?
(a) The area of an obtuse triangle.
(b) The area of an isosceles triangle.
(c) The area of a right triangle.
(d) The area of an acute triangle.

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

4. Who dipped Archimedes in warm water and oil and then wrapped him from head to feet like an Indian papoose?
(a) His mother.
(b) His godmother.
(c) A slave.
(d) His father.

5. When Archimedes estimated the number of grains of sand that would fill the universe, what common Greek measure did he use?
(a) Fingerbreadths.
(b) Mustard seeds.
(c) Poppy seeds.
(d) Stadium.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tower does not fall because its center of gravity is still over the tower's base?

2. What does "eureka" mean?

3. On what type of landform was the city located where Archimedes was born?

4. How much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?

5. What is the circumference of a circle?

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