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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. Which mathematicians probably used a decimal system of numbers?
(a) Euclid and Aristotle.
(b) Archimedes and Apollonius.
(c) Thales and Pythagorus.
(d) Hipparchus and Ptolemy.

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

3. When Archimedes worked with a sphere and cylinder, he figured the ratio or relationship of the cylinder to the sphere was ___________.
(a) 6/5.
(b) 7/6.
(c) 10/9.
(d) 3/2.

4. Who believed that the earth was a flat rectangle with their country in the middle?
(a) Egyptians.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Babylonians.
(d) Persians.

5. What is the solid of a square?
(a) Cube.
(b) Box.
(c) Cone.
(d) Tetrahedron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marcellus have his workmen build when he noticed a poorly guarded wall and tower in Syracuse?

2. What was King Hiero's crown supposed to be made from?

3. Which of these is not a plane figure that Archimedes discovered a method for finding the center of gravity?

4. What did Archimedes call the largest number that he worked with?

5. Where was Carthage located?

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