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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the study of shapes in space?
(a) Arithmetic.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Applied Mathematics.
(d) Geometry.

3. How often did three months have to be added to the Greek year?
(a) Every four years.
(b) Every two years.
(c) Every eight years.
(d) Every five years.

4. Who was Alexander the Great's tutor?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Epicurus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

5. How much would a skilled craftsman earn in Archimedes' day?
(a) 10 cents a day.
(b) 15 cents a day.
(c) 25 cents a day.
(d) 20 cents a day.

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

7. How much money would a laborer earn in Archimedes' day?
(a) 6 to 10 cents.
(b) 3 to 5 cents.
(c) 2 cents.
(d) 12 cents.

8. Which branch of mathematics studies numbers?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Arithmetic.
(c) Computation.
(d) Geometry.

9. How many miles long would Archimedes' lever have had to be if he had tried to move the earth?
(a) 88 sextillion.
(b) 100 million.
(c) 66 billion.
(d) 95 trillion.

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

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

12. How many planets did Greek astronomers observe?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

13. On what type of landform was the city located where Archimedes was born?
(a) Island.
(b) Isthmus.
(c) Peninsula.
(d) Archipelago.

14. What is the meaning of the Greek word "mathema" from which mathematics is derived?
(a) Methods.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Science.
(d) Material.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What laws did Archimedes discover that led to machines that could move heavy loads or increase speeds, or change directions?

2. Where would Archimedes sketch his diagrams when he was sitting by the fire in the evening?

3. What science did Archimedes begin that deals with the pressure of liquids?

4. Who believed that the earth was a flat rectangle with their country in the middle?

5. What hobgoblin would Archimedes' read about to scare him if he was bad?

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