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

3. 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) 6 times.
(b) 2 1/2 times.
(c) 1 1/2 times.
(d) 8 times.

4. Who were the first people to have ideas about gravity?
(a) Greek scientists.
(b) Babylonian scientists.
(c) Egyptian scientists.
(d) Persian scientists.

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

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

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

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

9. What did Archimedes call the largest number that he worked with?
(a) D100,000.
(b) C100,000,000.
(c) B100,000.
(d) P100,000,000.

10. What would be the area of a circle that had a radius of 2 inches?
(a) 12.56636.
(b) 16.8834.
(c) 14.3398.
(d) 9.4762.

11. Which area of scientific discovery was not part of Archimedes work?
(a) Buoyancy.
(b) Principle of Specific Gravity.
(c) Mechanics.
(d) Theory of Relativity.

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

13. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?
(a) The area of an acute triangle.
(b) The area of an obtuse triangle.
(c) The area of an isosceles triangle.
(d) The area of a right triangle.

14. When Archimedes worked with a sphere and cylinder, he figured the ratio or relationship of the cylinder to the sphere was ___________.
(a) 6/5.
(b) 3/2.
(c) 7/6.
(d) 10/9.

15. With Archimedes' polygons, how much less was the circumference than the diameter?
(a) 3 1/7 times.
(b) 2 1/2 times.
(c) 4 1/3 times.
(d) 5 1/8 times.