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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 many years later after Archimedes' work did another scientist add to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?
(a) 750 years.
(b) 1200 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 1800 years.

2. What is the point on which the lever turns or moves?
(a) Resistance.
(b) Fulcrum.
(c) Center point.
(d) Force.

3. What is the study of shapes in space?
(a) Applied Mathematics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Arithmetic.
(d) Algebra.

4. How many times in his life did Archimedes leave Sicily and travel?
(a) Two times.
(b) Once.
(c) Three times.
(d) Never.

5. How long would it have taken Archimedes to sail from Syracuse to Alexandria?
(a) 20 days.
(b) 30 days.
(c) 16 to 17 days.
(d) 10 to 12 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Archimedes' father's occupation?

2. Which type of mathematics do architects needs to plan buildings?

3. From which factories would ships bring manufactured goods?

4. Which branch of mathematics deals with motion and change?

5. Who was Alexander the Great's tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Eratosthenes?

2. How did Archimedes write?

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

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

5. What important discoveries did Archimedes make about solids?

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

7. Why would a slave be put in charge of Archimedes when he started school?

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

9. What would happen when Archimedes was engrossed in a problem?

10. What tools did the Greek astronomers have?

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