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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. Whom did Archimedes enjoy arguing with regarding whether pure reason was better than practical knowledge?
(a) King Hiero.
(b) Conon.
(c) Erastosthenes.
(d) Apollonius.

2. How do people know that some of Archimedes' writings have been lost?
(a) A list of his writings was engraved on his tomb.
(b) He refers to them or other mathematicians refer to them in other writings.
(c) Oral tradition.
(d) A list of them survives.

3. What is the solid of a circle?
(a) Box.
(b) Cone.
(c) Sphere.
(d) Cube.

4. How many miles long would Archimedes' lever have had to be if he had tried to move the earth?
(a) 88 sextillion.
(b) 95 trillion.
(c) 66 billion.
(d) 100 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of Hippocrates' men did Marcellus kill?

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

4. Which branch of mathematics studies numbers?

5. Where was Carthage located?

(see the answer key)

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