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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, No End to Archimedes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did the Romans preserve some of Archimedes' astronomical machines?
(a) 75 years.
(b) About 100 years.
(c) More than 200 years.
(d) 150 years.

2. Where did Carthage have colonies?
(a) Egypt.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

3. Marcellus ordered his soldiers to not take ______________as slaves.
(a) All free citizens of Syracuse.
(b) The children of Syracuse.
(c) The women of Syracuse.
(d) The scientists like Archimedes.

4. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the universe (all the stars) was than the Greek universe?
(a) 75,000 times.
(b) 100,000 times.
(c) 10,000 times.
(d) 50,000 times.

5. Who was Alexander the Great's tutor?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Epicurus.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What books did Archimedes send to friends in Alexandria with deliberate errors?

2. What was Archimedes favorite branch of mathematics?

3. Who estimated the circumference of the earth to within one hundred miles?

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

5. Before Archimedes, what did people use to figure the area of a circle?

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