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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 much would an educated man, like an architect, earn in Archimedes' day?
(a) 30 cents a day.
(b) 50 cents a day.
(c) 60 cents a day.
(d) 45 cents a day.

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

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

4. Who was the French scientist who later added to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?
(a) Blaise Pascal.
(b) Marie Curie.
(c) Sebastian Basso.
(d) Henri Becquerel.

5. What metal did the King suspect had been substituted in the crown?
(a) Copper.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Silver.
(d) Tin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where would Archimedes sketch his diagrams when he was in his workroom?

2. Which planet did the Greeks name after the king of the gods?

3. What principle did Archimedes discover that is one of the basic scientific tests of all the elements?

4. How many days were in the Greek year?

5. What instrument did Archimedes create that told him the density of liquids?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where would a boy from Syracuse have spent many hours?

4. What is geometry?

5. Who was Euclid?

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

7. What was the most important thing that Archimedes gave to the world?

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

9. What was the Museum, and who worked there?

10. Who was Eratosthenes?

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