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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 many papers did Archimedes write about arithmetic?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. What calculation today does not use the unusual mathematical properties of a spiral?
(a) Directions.
(b) Speeds.
(c) Distances in space.
(d) Finding an unknown quantity.

3. When was Euclid born?
(a) About 425 B.C.
(b) About 330 B.C.
(c) About 375 B.C.
(d) About 400 B.C.

4. Who succeeded Hiero when he died?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Herodotus.
(c) Hieronymus.
(d) Pericles.

5. How old was Archimedes when he received his name?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 24 hours old.
(c) 5 days.
(d) Just hours old.

Short Answer Questions

1. What historian wrote an account of the battle between Rome and Syracuse?

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

3. How many years after Archimedes lived was the printing press invented?

4. What is the science that deals with the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

5. What is the circumference of a circle?

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