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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 great Greek teacher who lived more than one hundred years before Archimedes believed it was important to learn geometry?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Sappho.

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

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

4. Where was Archimedes taken when he had spent days staring at the King's crown and little else?
(a) To see the king.
(b) To his parents' home.
(c) To a place to eat.
(d) The baths.

5. What laws did Archimedes discover that led to machines that could move heavy loads or increase speeds, or change directions?
(a) Laws of inclined plane.
(b) Laws of the wedge.
(c) Laws of the pulley and lever.
(d) Laws of the wheel and axle.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did a series of ropes and wheels run from King Hiero's ship?

2. What did the Greeks called the smallest and fastest planet?

3. Which branch of mathematics had the groundwork for its development laid by Archimedes?

4. What is heavier than wood?

5. How long were the rolls that were used for Greek books?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Archimedes write?

2. What tools did the Greek astronomers have?

3. What is a hydrometer and how does it work?

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

5. Who was Eratosthenes?

6. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

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

8. Describe a Greek school like Archimedes attended.

9. Who was Euclid?

10. What sciences did Archimedes begin, and with what did each type of science deal?

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