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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, The Sphere and the Cylinder.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is not an example of a lever?
(a) An axle.
(b) Screw driver.
(c) Hammer.
(d) Crowbar.

2. What dimensions does a plane figure have?
(a) Length and width.
(b) Length, width and thickness.
(c) Length and height.
(d) Depth and height.

3. Which branch of mathematics studies numbers?
(a) Arithmetic.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Computation.
(d) Algebra.

4. What did Archimedes claim he could move if he had a place to stand?
(a) A ship.
(b) A building.
(c) The moon.
(d) The earth.

5. If you took a sphere and made a cylinder whose base was the greatest circle of the sphere and whose height was the diameter of the sphere, how much space or volume would the cylinder take up compared to the sphere?
(a) 6 times.
(b) 3 1/2 times.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 1 1/2 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the solid of a square?

2. What was Archimedes favorite branch of mathematics?

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

4. What is the study of shapes in space?

5. What is the solid of a rectangle?

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