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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Roman general who waged war against Syracuse?
(a) Marcellus.
(b) Aureolus.
(c) Glabrio.
(d) Bonifacius.

2. How many galleys did the Roman general have who attacked Syracuse?
(a) 50.
(b) 40.
(c) 60.
(d) 70.

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

4. What does radius mean?
(a) The longest chord of a circle.
(b) The distance around a circle.
(c) The shortest chord of a circle.
(d) Length of a circle from the center to the rim.

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

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

7. Which of these would be a lemma?
(a) 27 - x = 15.
(b) 1 + 1 = 2.
(c) a + b = 4c.
(d) 33(y)=66.

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

9. In how many books that Archimedes sent to his friends, did he make deliberate errors?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

10. 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 isosceles triangle.
(b) The area of an acute triangle.
(c) The area of an obtuse triangle.
(d) The area of a right triangle.

11. For which type of science were Archimedes' demonstrations of centers of gravity the foundation?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Quantum physics.
(c) Theoretical mechanics.
(d) Statistical mechanics.

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

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

14. When did Hiero die?
(a) 217 B.C.
(b) 212 B.C.
(c) 220 B.C.
(d) 215 B.C.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the first people to have ideas about gravity?

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

3. After Archimedes used a common Greek measure to estimate the number of grains of sand in the universe, what measure did he use?

4. How many of Hippocrates' men did Marcellus kill?

5. How many banks of oars did the galleys have that a Roman general used to attack Syracuse?

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