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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. What is the ratio of the area of a circle to the circle's diameter squared?
(a) 10 to 12.
(b) 3 to 8.
(c) 11 to 14.
(d) 5 to 9.

2. Where was Archimedes taken when he had spent days staring at the King's crown and little else?
(a) To his parents' home.
(b) To a place to eat.
(c) The baths.
(d) To see the king.

3. What type of mathematics must engineers use to build bridges?
(a) Applied Mathematics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Trigonometry.

4. Who was Archimedes' predecessor in the field of mathematics?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Pythagorus.
(c) Democritus.
(d) Euclid.

5. What did Marcellus have his workmen build when he noticed a poorly guarded wall and tower in Syracuse?
(a) Climbing poles.
(b) Bridges.
(c) Scaling ladders.
(d) Step ladders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is heavier than wood?

2. Which astronomers believed that the earth was inside a hollow iron sphere?

3. When Buffon, a French scientist, made a mirror following the description of Archimedes' mirrors, how far away could he set fire to wood?

4. What was Archimedes favorite branch of mathematics?

5. When was Euclid born?

(see the answer key)

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