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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is a good project to learn about centers of gravity?
(a) Make a mobile.
(b) Experiment with rulers.
(c) Experiment with spoons.
(d) Make a balance scale.

4. How many different sciences did Archimedes begin?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

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

6. How did the people of Syracuse celebrate their favorite festival?
(a) With plays and feasts.
(b) By fasting.
(c) By making sacrifices.
(d) With dancing, games, food and wine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which of these is not a plane figure that Archimedes discovered a method for finding the center of gravity?
(a) Triangle.
(b) Parabola.
(c) Parallelogram.
(d) Cone.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Marcellus hold Syracuse in siege.

2. Who was the Roman general who waged war against Syracuse?

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

4. What would be the area of a circle that had a radius of 3 inches?

5. What did Marcellus have his workmen build when he noticed a poorly guarded wall and tower in Syracuse?

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