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

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

3. Where would Archimedes sketch his diagrams when he was sitting by the fire in the evening?
(a) A piece of cloth.
(b) Ashes on the hearth.
(c) Papyrus.
(d) Clay tablets.

4. Before Archimedes, what did people use to figure the area of a circle?
(a) Pentagons inside and outside the circle.
(b) Octagons inside and outside the circle.
(c) Triangles inside and outside the circle.
(d) Squares inside and outside the circle.

5. Where did Rome capture city states?
(a) Italy.
(b) Egypt.
(c) France.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Archimedes used a common Greek measure to estimate the number of grains of sand in the universe, what measure did he use?

2. Which type of mathematics do architects needs to plan buildings?

3. What constellations did Archimedes' teacher of mathematics discover?

4. Which branch of mathematics deals with distances to directions?

5. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the universe (all the stars) was than the Greek universe?

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