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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. When did people first glimpse the idea of gravity and its effects?
(a) Some time during the 600s B.C.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 12th century.
(d) Some time during the 200s B.C.

2. When do most people believe that the first real understanding of the laws of gravitation began?
(a) 300 A.D.
(b) 300 B.C.
(c) 12th century.
(d) 17th century.

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

4. What is the solid of a rectangle?
(a) Tetrahedron.
(b) Cube.
(c) Box.
(d) Sphere.

5. When Archimedes estimated the number of grains of sand that would fill the universe, what common Greek measure did he use?
(a) Fingerbreadths.
(b) Stadium.
(c) Poppy seeds.
(d) Mustard seeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a lemma?

2. Which area of scientific discovery was not part of Archimedes work?

3. Who founded Alexandria?

4. Where was Archimedes taken when he had spent days staring at the King's crown and little else?

5. How many planets did Greek astronomers observe?

(see the answer key)

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