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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What laws did Archimedes discover that led to machines that could move heavy loads or increase speeds, or change directions?

2. How old was Archimedes when he received his name?

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

4. What did Archimedes use to weigh the crown?

5. What principle did Archimedes discover that tells why some things float, some things sink, and some things rise into the air?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Euclid?

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

3. Why did Aristotle believe that the earth was curved and shaped like a sphere?

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

5. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

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

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

8. Why was Archimedes an unusual man?

9. Who was Eratosthenes?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are three different classes of levers. Discuss how a lever works and how the relationship of the different parts of a lever create the different lever classes.

Essay Topic 2

Archimedes worked with plane and solid figures. Discuss plane and solid figures and the work Archimedes did with them.

Essay Topic 3

Archimedes wanted to be more exact than mathematicians before him when figuring the area of a circle. Discuss different methods that Archimedes, mathematicians before him, and mathematicians after him have used to find the area of a circle.

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