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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is always the same as the area of a circle if one side was the same as the radius of the circle?
(a) The area of a right triangle.
(b) The area of an acute triangle.
(c) The area of an obtuse triangle.
(d) The area of an isosceles triangle.

2. What time of day did Marcellus order his soldiers to make a noise when they entered Syracuse?
(a) Mid-morning.
(b) Daybreak.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midnight.

3. When do most people believe that the first real understanding of the laws of gravitation began?
(a) 300 B.C.
(b) 12th century.
(c) 300 A.D.
(d) 17th century.

4. What books did Archimedes send to friends in Alexandria with deliberate errors?
(a) On Conoids and Spheroids.
(b) On the Measurement of a Circle.
(c) The Quadrature of the Parabola.
(d) The Sphere and the Cylinder.

5. How many of Hippocrates' men did Marcellus kill?
(a) 5,500.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 7,500.
(d) 6,000.

6. What sound did the author mention that could be made in a cave?
(a) Yodeling.
(b) Shout.
(c) Whisper.
(d) Singing.

7. What did Archimedes call the largest number that he worked with?
(a) P100,000,000.
(b) B100,000.
(c) C100,000,000.
(d) D100,000.

8. How many galleys did the Roman general have who attacked Syracuse?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 70.
(d) 40.

9. What tower does not fall because its center of gravity is still over the tower's base?
(a) Leaning Tower of Pisa.
(b) Eiffel Tower.
(c) The London Post Office Tower.
(d) Galatia Tower.

10. What did the author mention that could be dropped into a pond?
(a) Stick.
(b) Pebble.
(c) Shell.
(d) Bread.

11. Where is the center of balance on a spoon?
(a) Near the end of the spoon's handle.
(b) In the center.
(c) At the bowl of the spoon.
(d) Near the bowl of the spoon.

12. What does it take to cause a chain reaction in a nuclear explosion?
(a) 15 atoms fused together.
(b) A single particle of an atom.
(c) 100 clusters of atoms.
(d) 30 atoms fused together.

13. What is a good project to learn about centers of gravity?
(a) Make a balance scale.
(b) Experiment with rulers.
(c) Experiment with spoons.
(d) Make a mobile.

14. How much larger did Archimedes believe that the universe (all the stars) was than the Greek universe?
(a) 10,000 times.
(b) 50,000 times.
(c) 75,000 times.
(d) 100,000 times.

15. 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 larger would the surface of the cylinder be than the surface of the sphere?
(a) 2 1/2 times.
(b) 6 times.
(c) 1 1/2 times.
(d) 8 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rome capture city states?

2. What is the solid of a triangle?

3. What was the name of the largest number for which the Greeks had a name?

4. Where is earth's center of gravity in the solar system?

5. What historian wrote an account of the battle between Rome and Syracuse?

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