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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. Which of these is not a plane figure that Archimedes discovered a method for finding the center of gravity?
(a) Parabola.
(b) Cone.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Parallelogram.

2. How many books were in the library at Alexandria?
(a) About a quarter of a million.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) Half a million.

3. What is the meaning of the Greek word "mathema" from which mathematics is derived?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Science.
(c) Material.
(d) Methods.

4. What was the value of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?
(a) 1,000,000,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. How many banks of oars did the galleys have that a Roman general used to attack Syracuse?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many planets did Greek astronomers observe?

2. Where did Rome capture city states?

3. Where is earth's center of gravity in the solar system?

4. After Archimedes spent days staring at the King's crown, who came to take him somewhere?

5. When Archimedes worked with a sphere and cylinder, he figured the ratio or relationship of the cylinder to the sphere was ___________.

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