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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principle did Archimedes discover that is one of the basic scientific tests of all the elements?
(a) Conservation of Energy.
(b) Specific gravity.
(c) Electromagnetism.
(d) Thermodynamics.

2. When was Archimedes born?
(a) 315 B.C.
(b) 274 B.C.
(c) 287 B.C.
(d) 294 B.C.

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

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

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

6. What did the King order after Archimedes moved his ship?
(a) Archimedes receive a reward.
(b) A statue be built of Archimedes.
(c) Archimedes always be believed.
(d) A medal be designed for Archimedes.

7. How many books were in the library at Alexandria?
(a) Half a million.
(b) 100,000.
(c) About a quarter of a million.
(d) 750,000.

8. How much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?
(a) 30 cents a day.
(b) 50 cents a day.
(c) 60 cents a day.
(d) 45 cents a day.

9. What is not an example of a lever?
(a) Hammer.
(b) Crowbar.
(c) An axle.
(d) Screw driver.

10. For how many years did Archimedes' war machines defend the city of Syracuse?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

12. Who estimated the circumference of the earth to within one hundred miles?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Eratosthenes.
(d) Anaxagorus.

13. Who believed that the earth was a flat rectangle with their country in the middle?
(a) Babylonians.
(b) Greeks.
(c) Persians.
(d) Egyptians.

14. During Archimedes' time, where did explorers say that savages called "gorillas" lived?
(a) East of the Mediterranean Sea.
(b) West of the Mediterranean Sea.
(c) South of Egypt.
(d) In the Far East.

15. What type of lever has the force at one end, the resistance at the other end, and the fulcrum in between?
(a) Second-class lever.
(b) Fourth-class lever.
(c) First-class lever.
(d) Third-class lever.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books were included in Euclid's "The Elements"?

2. From where would ships bring fish to Sicily?

3. What was the mathematical subject that Archimedes did not write about?

4. Who was Alexander the Great's tutor?

5. How many times in his life did Archimedes leave Sicily and travel?

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