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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The War Machines of Archimedes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which branch of mathematics deals with motion and change?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Trigonometry.
(c) Applied Mathematics.
(d) Algebra.

4. What would Archimedes' nurse read to him if he was good?
(a) Stories about giants.
(b) Stories about wars.
(c) Aesop's Fables.
(d) Tales of the Gods.

5. Who succeeded Hiero when he died?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Hieronymus.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Pericles.

Short Answer Questions

1. If two weights weigh the same, where will they balance?

2. How long was Ptolemy's Museum the center of Greek learning?

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

4. How many papers did Archimedes write about arithmetic?

5. When did people first glimpse the idea of gravity and its effects?

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