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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were the rolls that were used for Greek books?
(a) 75 feet long.
(b) 150 feet long.
(c) 120 feet long.
(d) 215 feet long.

2. What is heavier than wood?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Iron.
(c) Copper.
(d) Silver.

3. What is the work done on a lever called?
(a) Resistance.
(b) Energy.
(c) Fulcrum.
(d) Force.

4. Which branch of mathematics deals with distances to directions?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Geometry.

5. What is the science that deals with the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?
(a) Hydrology.
(b) Oceanography.
(c) Climatology.
(d) Hydrostatics.

6. Who was Archimedes' teacher of mathematics at the Museum?
(a) Zenodotus.
(b) Apollonius of Rhodes.
(c) Callimachus.
(d) Conon of Samos.

7. What would Archimedes' nurse read to him if he was good?
(a) Tales of the Gods.
(b) Aesop's Fables.
(c) Stories about wars.
(d) Stories about giants.

8. From where would ships bring grain to Sicily?
(a) Persia.
(b) Egypt.
(c) China.
(d) Africa.

9. What did Archimedes invent that is still used to drain or irrigate fields, load grain, and run high-speed machines?
(a) Block-and-tackle-pulley system.
(b) Archimedean screw.
(c) Claw of Archimedes.
(d) Archimedean spiral.

10. Who founded Alexandria?
(a) Alexander the Great.
(b) Antoniadas.
(c) Pompey.
(d) Ptolemy.

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

12. What instrument did Archimedes create that told him the density of liquids?
(a) Barometer.
(b) Hydrometer.
(c) Refractometer.
(d) Thermometer.

13. What is the formula to find the volume of a cube?
(a) Multiply length by width.
(b) Multiply length by width by height.
(c) Two times the length plus the height.
(d) Add all the sides together.

14. Who was the first person to indicate latitude and longitude on a map?
(a) Apollonius.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Zenodotus.
(d) Eratosthenes.

15. How did Archimedes's family announce his birth?
(a) Draped eucalyptus branches around windows of the house.
(b) An announcement was made in the public square.
(c) Hung an olive branch on the doorpost of their house.
(d) A slave went to friends and family

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the King order after Archimedes moved his ship?

2. What constellations did Archimedes' teacher of mathematics discover?

3. How much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?

4. How many years later after Archimedes' work did another scientist add to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

5. How old would Archimedes have been when he moved out of the women's quarters?

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