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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is earth's center of gravity in the solar system?
(a) Between the moon and Mercury.
(b) 15,000 miles from the moon.
(c) In the center of the earth.
(d) 20,000 miles from the moon.

2. What was the name of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?
(a) Myriad.
(b) Omicron.
(c) Sigma.
(d) Kappa.

3. After Archimedes used a common Greek measure to estimate the number of grains of sand in the universe, what measure did he use?
(a) Cubit.
(b) Stadium.
(c) Fingerbreadths.
(d) Royal Cubit.

4. What does it take to cause a chain reaction in a nuclear explosion?
(a) 30 atoms fused together.
(b) 100 clusters of atoms.
(c) 15 atoms fused together.
(d) A single particle of an atom.

5. When Buffon, a French scientist, made a mirror following the description of Archimedes' mirrors, how far away could he set fire to wood?
(a) 75 feet.
(b) 150 feet.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 100 feet.

6. If two weights weigh the same, where will they balance?
(a) At eight inches apart.
(b) At two inches apart.
(c) In the center.
(d) At equal distances.

7. How did Marcellus feel when he watched his soldiers conquer Syracuse?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Delighted.
(c) Proud.
(d) Sad.

8. What part of the Mediterranean Sea did the ships of Carthage control?
(a) Northern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

9. When do most people believe that the first real understanding of the laws of gravitation began?
(a) 300 A.D.
(b) 300 B.C.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 12th century.

10. Where did Rome capture city states?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Greece.
(d) Egypt.

11. What can a giant radio telescope fill with broadcast signals?
(a) Millions of light-years.
(b) Billions of light-years.
(c) Pica units of light-years.
(d) Thousands of light-years.

12. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the universe (all the stars) was than the Greek universe?
(a) 50,000 times.
(b) 75,000 times.
(c) 100,000 times.
(d) 10,000 times.

13. How many sides did the polygons have that Archimedes used to determine the area of a circle?
(a) 112.
(b) 8.
(c) 36.
(d) 96.

14. If you took a sphere and made a cylinder whose base was the greatest circle of the sphere and whose height was the diameter of the sphere, how much larger would the surface of the cylinder be than the surface of the sphere?
(a) 8 times.
(b) 1 1/2 times.
(c) 6 times.
(d) 2 1/2 times.

15. What sound did the author mention that could be made in a cave?
(a) Whisper.
(b) Yodeling.
(c) Singing.
(d) Shout.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?

2. What does radius mean?

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

4. What scientist do most people believe was the first to understand the laws of gravitation?

5. What would be the area of a circle that had a radius of 2 inches?

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