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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 long would it have taken Archimedes to sail from Syracuse to Alexandria?
(a) 16 to 17 days.
(b) 10 to 12 days.
(c) 30 days.
(d) 20 days.

2. What festival was a favorite of the people in Syracuse?
(a) Hieros Gamos.
(b) Greater Dionysia.
(c) Festival of the Vine Flower.
(d) Feast to Diana.

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

4. What did the author mention that could be dropped into a pond?
(a) Stick.
(b) Shell.
(c) Bread.
(d) Pebble.

5. What is the point on which the lever turns or moves?
(a) Center point.
(b) Fulcrum.
(c) Force.
(d) Resistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many planets was Archimedes able to estimate the distance from earth?

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

3. Marcellus ordered his soldiers to not take ______________as slaves.

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

5. What great Greek teacher who lived more than one hundred years before Archimedes believed it was important to learn geometry?

(see the answer key)

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