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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metal did the King suspect had been substituted in the crown?
(a) Copper.
(b) Silver.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Tin.

2. Which astronomer said that the sun was nine times greater than the moon?
(a) Eudoxus.
(b) Anaxagorus.
(c) Phidias.
(d) Archimedes.

3. What Greek poet would Archimedes have studied?
(a) Homer.
(b) Antimachus.
(c) Hesiod.
(d) Aeschylus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was Ptolemy's Museum the center of Greek learning?

2. How many years later after Archimedes' work did another scientist add to the laws of nature that govern liquids at rest?

3. How many books were included in Euclid's "The Elements"?

4. To what did a series of ropes and wheels run from King Hiero's ship?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a machine, and how does it work?

2. What tools did the Greek astronomers have?

3. What are some examples of how force creates work?

4. Why was it important that Archimedes discovered how to find volume?

5. What sciences did Archimedes begin, and with what did each type of science deal?

6. How was Archimedes' birth celebrated?

7. What is a hydrometer and how does it work?

8. How did Archimedes write?

9. What important discoveries did Archimedes make about solids?

10. What did Archimedes write about mathematics?

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