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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marcellus ordered his soldiers to not take ______________as slaves.
(a) The children of Syracuse.
(b) The women of Syracuse.
(c) All free citizens of Syracuse.
(d) The scientists like Archimedes.

2. How many of Hippocrates' men did Marcellus kill?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 5,500.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 6,000.

3. Who succeeded Hiero when he died?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Hieronymus.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Pericles.

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

5. What was the value of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 1,000,000,000.

6. What time of day did Marcellus order his soldiers to make a noise when they entered Syracuse?
(a) Mid-morning.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Daybreak.
(d) Dusk.

7. What did Archimedes want on his tomb?
(a) A figure of a sphere and cylinder.
(b) Drawings of plane figures.
(c) Drawing of a sphere.
(d) Drawing of a cylinder.

8. How did Marcellus' soldiers enter Syracuse?
(a) Over the wall.
(b) Under the wall.
(c) Through a hole in a wall.
(d) Through an unguarded gate.

9. What is the solid of a square?
(a) Cone.
(b) Cube.
(c) Tetrahedron.
(d) Box.

10. What mathematics is needed to figure the cattle problem?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Trigonometry.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Calculus.

11. What historian wrote an account of the battle between Rome and Syracuse?
(a) Herodotus.
(b) Plutarch.
(c) Sallust.
(d) Livy.

12. What tower does not fall because its center of gravity is still over the tower's base?
(a) Galatia Tower.
(b) The London Post Office Tower.
(c) Leaning Tower of Pisa.
(d) Eiffel Tower.

13. With Archimedes' polygons, how much more was the circumference than the diameter?
(a) 3 10/71 times.
(b) 6 15/94 times.
(c) 2 5/84 times.
(d) 1 11/63 times.

14. What strait did Carthage control?
(a) Cook.
(b) Pentland.
(c) Gibralter.
(d) Messina.

15. How do people know that some of Archimedes' writings have been lost?
(a) Oral tradition.
(b) A list of his writings was engraved on his tomb.
(c) He refers to them or other mathematicians refer to them in other writings.
(d) A list of them survives.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do most people believe that the first real understanding of the laws of gravitation began?

2. What is the ratio of the area of a circle to the circle's diameter squared?

3. When did people first glimpse the idea of gravity and its effects?

4. How did the people of Syracuse celebrate their favorite festival?

5. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the universe (all the stars) was than the Greek universe?

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