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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The War Machines of Archimedes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ratio of the area of a circle to the circle's diameter squared?
(a) 10 to 12.
(b) 5 to 9.
(c) 11 to 14.
(d) 3 to 8.

2. What was the value of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?
(a) 1,000,000,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

3. Who believed that the earth was a flat rectangle with their country in the middle?
(a) Babylonians.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Persians.
(d) Greeks.

4. After Archimedes used a common Greek measure to estimate the number of grains of sand in the universe, what measure did he use?
(a) Stadium.
(b) Royal Cubit.
(c) Fingerbreadths.
(d) Cubit.

5. From where would ships bring grain to Sicily?
(a) Africa.
(b) Persia.
(c) Egypt.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much larger is the sun than the moon?

2. What type of lever has the force at one end, the resistance at the other end, and the fulcrum in between?

3. What would be the area of a circle that had a radius of 3 inches?

4. From where would ships bring fish to Sicily?

5. What is the science that deals with the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

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