Group 5: Bryan Bulatao

Regie Mae Soria

Mary Joy Caranga

C 1. Who made numerous observation of the heavens from locations near

Alexandria and wrote several important books?
a.Menelaus c.Claudius Ptolemy
b.Euclid d.Archimedes

B 2.Which collection is a work in 13 books that contained a complete

mathematical description of the Greek model of the universe with parameters
for various motions of the sun, moon and planets?
a.The greatest collection b.Mathematical
collection
c.Astronomical collection d.None of the above

A 3. It is also known as the greatest collection.

a.Megisti syntaxis b.al-magisti
c.Magisti syntaxis d.Mathematiki syntaxis

C 4. The first order of business for Ptolemy was the construction of _________.
a.Arcs b.chords
c.chord tables d.circle

A 5. Ptolemy's first calculation established the chord of ___.

a.36° c.72°
b.60° d.90°

A 6. Given any quadrilateral inscribed in a circle, the product of the diagonals

equals the sum of the products of the opposite sides. What theorem is it?
a.Ptolemy's theorem b.Menelaus'
theoreHipparchus
c.hus' theorem d.Euclid's theorem

C 7. What is the alternative procedure was used by Ptolemy to determine

crd(½°)?
a.geometrical procedure b.astronomical
procedure
c.approximation procedure d.Ptolemy's procedure

B 8. Ptolemy's table contains length of chords when the radius is ___?

a.45 c.90
b.60 d.120
B 9. What theorem is used by Ptolemy to solve spherical right triangles?
a.Ptolemy's theorem b.Menelaus' theorem
c.Copernicus' theorem d.Euclid's theorem

B 10. Centuries past, the mathematical collection to greatest collection to al-

magisti, ever since it has been called as _____?
a.Cosmos b.Almagest
c.Megisti syntaxis d.None of the
above

D 11. Which is not a primary reasonreason for the study of Astronomy?

a. determination of the season
b.prediction of eclipses
c. establishment of the beginning of the lunar month
d. determination of the position of the sun and moon

A 12. Who is not a major contributor to the development of mathematics?

a. Plato b.Ptolemy
c.Menelaus d.Hipparchus

B 13. According to ____, the only movements in the heavens were the "natural"
movements of the perfect bodies.
a. Ptolemy b. Aristotle
c. Plato d. Apollonius

B 14. Why does the calendrical situation in Mesopotamia generally alternated

in length?
a. for the agricultural events will always occur in the same day
b.for the agricultural events will always occur in the same month
c.for the agricultural events will always occur in the same day and month
d. none of the choices

A 15. Who noted that "the objects not actually standing on the earth would
appear to have the same motion, opposite to that of earth?"
a. Greek b.Babylonian
c. Eudoxus d. Hipparchus
A 16. The great orator who admitted that the Romans were not interested in
mathematics.
a. Cicero b. Vitruvius
c. Plato d. Archimedes
B 17. He display a solid knowledge of Mathematics evident in his famous work
On Architecture.
a. Cicero b. Vitruvius
c. Plato d. Archimedes
A 18. His manual displayed a method for measuring the width of a river by
using congruent triangles.
a. Marcus Junius Nipsius b.MarcuS John
Napsus
c. Marcus Janus Niksus d. Marcus Nexux
B 19. It is the Heron’s work on indirect measurement that refers to a sighting
instrument.
a. Depta b. Dioptra
c. Delta d. Dorcas
A 20. Heron’s Mechanics is what appears today as
a. Parallelogram of Velocities b. Parallelogram of Speed
c. Parallelogram of Vectors d. Parallelogram of
Acceleration

TRUE OR FALSE
FALSE 21. In the process of using Mathematics to study astronomy, the Greeks
created geometry and spherical trigonometry

FALSE 22. If one wants to identify the important days in the yearly calendar,
one needs to be able to observe the moon's position.

TRUE 23. The most prominent features of the moon's appearance in the sky is
its phases.

TRUE 24. The motion of the moon determined the important intervals within the
year, the month

TRUE 25. It was the Babylonians who first introduced coordinates into the sky.