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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. When did people first glimpse the idea of gravity and its effects?

2. What would be the area of a circle that had a radius of 2 inches?

3. What does radius mean?

4. What word means balance?

5. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the Greek universe (our solar system) was larger than the earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Archimedes estimate the number of grains that would fill the universe?

2. Why is it possible for a person to balance standing on one foot?

3. What were the people of Syracuse doing when the Romans crept into their city?

4. How do people know that some of Archimedes' writing have been lost?

5. What are some reasons why Archimedes is held in such high esteem by mathematicians?

6. What is the center of gravity?

7. What calculations did Archimedes use to show how numbers were infinite?

8. Before Archimedes, how did people find the area of a circle?

9. Why isn't the center of gravity always at the center of an object?

10. Why did Archimedes not want to help King Hiero make plans to defend Syracuse from a possible attack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Archimedes made many contributions to astronomy. Discuss Archimedes' contributions to astronomy.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The title of the book, "Archimedes and the Door of Science," is an analogy that relates Archimedes' contributions in the fields of science and mathematics and the value of those contributions to scientists and mathematicians who followed him. Discuss how Archimedes opened a door to science.

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