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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. What did Archimedes use to weigh the crown?
(a) A set of scales.
(b) Tare weight.
(c) An ampere balance.
(d) Water, jar, and a bowl.

2. What sea is near Sicily?
(a) Mediterranean.
(b) Arabian.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

3. What is the formula to find the volume of a cube?
(a) Multiply length by width by height.
(b) Two times the length plus the height.
(c) Multiply length by width.
(d) Add all the sides together.

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

5. What is the science that deals with the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?
(a) Climatology.
(b) Oceanography.
(c) Hydrostatics.
(d) Hydrology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Euclid born?

2. Who was Archimedes' teacher of mathematics at the Museum?

3. From where would ships bring fish to Sicily?

4. What is heavier than wood?

5. How much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important discoveries did Archimedes make about solids?

2. How was Archimedes' birth celebrated?

3. Why was Archimedes an unusual man?

4. What few ideas did Archimedes have that someone had already discovered about the distance between two points?

5. What made King Hiero suspect that his crown might not be solid gold?

6. What is geometry?

7. What did Archimedes and King Hiero enjoy arguing about?

8. Who was Euclid?

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

10. What did Archimedes notice at the baths, and how did he use that discovery to solve the problem of the crown?

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