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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Measurement of a Circle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the circumference of a circle?
(a) The ratio between the diameter and the radius.
(b) The distance around the circle.
(c) The distance from the center of a circle to the rim.
(d) The distance from rim to rim of a circle.

2. What is the formula for the area of a circle?
(a) Multiply the radius times the circumference of a circle.
(b) Subtract the radius from the circumference of a circle.
(c) Multiply pi times the radius of the circle times the radius again.
(d) Multiply the length of the circle from rim to rim times pi.

3. What hobgoblin would Archimedes' read about to scare him if he was bad?
(a) Eurynome.
(b) Tethys.
(c) Rhea.
(d) Empersa.

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

5. To what did a series of ropes and wheels run from King Hiero's ship?
(a) An ellipse.
(b) A hyperbola.
(c) A helix.
(d) A parabola.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours did the Greeks believe it took the earth to turn on its axis?

2. Which type of mathematics do architects needs to plan buildings?

3. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?

4. With Archimedes' polygons, how much less was the circumference than the diameter?

5. What Greek poet would Archimedes have studied?

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