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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long were the rolls that were used for Greek books?
(a) 75 feet long.
(b) 120 feet long.
(c) 215 feet long.
(d) 150 feet long.

2. What is heavier than iron?
(a) Copper.
(b) Gold.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Silver.

3. Who estimated the circumference of the earth to within one hundred miles?
(a) Aristarchus.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Anaxagorus.
(d) Eratosthenes.

4. What Greek poet would Archimedes have studied?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Homer.
(c) Antimachus.
(d) Aeschylus.

5. Whom did Archimedes enjoy arguing with regarding whether pure reason was better than practical knowledge?
(a) King Hiero.
(b) Erastosthenes.
(c) Apollonius.
(d) Conon.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where would ships bring fish to Sicily?

2. Which branch of mathematics studies numbers?

3. What great Greek teacher who lived more than one hundred years before Archimedes believed it was important to learn geometry?

4. What is the work done on a lever called?

5. During Archimedes' time, where did explorers say that savages called "gorillas" lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might have been the first thing that thing that Archimedes saw when he entered the Alexandria harbor?

2. What important discoveries did Archimedes make about solids?

3. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

4. Why didn't Archimedes write about algebra?

5. What did the Egyptians believe about the earth and stars?

6. How did the Egyptians and Babylonians use astronomy?

7. What are some examples of how force creates work?

8. Describe a Greek school like Archimedes attended.

9. Why was it important that Archimedes discovered how to find volume?

10. What is a machine, and how does it work?

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