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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 is heavier than wood?

2. How much money would a laborer earn in Archimedes' day?

3. What was the mathematical subject that Archimedes did not write about?

4. Where would Archimedes sketch his diagrams when he was sitting by the fire in the evening?

5. Which branch of mathematics studies numbers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Euclid?

4. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

5. Describe a Greek school like Archimedes attended.

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

7. What was known about the lands to the north, south, east, and west of Sicily?

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

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

10. How was Archimedes' birth celebrated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Greeks were a people who were different from people who had lived before them and people who lived after them. Discuss Greek society.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why Archimedes created the Archimedean screw.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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