Plane & Solid Geometry

An annulus is a plane figure which is composed of

two concentric circles. The area of the annulus can be
calculated by getting the difference between the area
of the larger circle and the area of the smaller circle.
Also, its area can be calculated by removing the hole.
This method is called

a. law of extremities
b. law of reduction
c. law of deduction
d. sharp theorem
Answer: a
Each of the faces of a regular hexahedron is a

a. square
b. triangle
c. rectangle
d. hexagon

Answer: a
It is a polyhedron of which two faces are equal
polygons in parallel planes and the other faces
are parallelogram

a. tetrahedron
b. prism
c. frustum
d. prismatoid

Answer: b
The apothem of a polygon is ___ of its inscribed
circle.

a. radius
b. circumference
c. diameter
d. length

Answer: a
Each angle of regular dodecagon is equal to

a. 135°
b. 150°
c. 125°
d. 105°

Answer: b
The area bounded by two concentric circles is
called

a. ring
b. disk
c. annulus
d. sector

Answer: c
One-fourth of a great circle is called

a. cone
b. sector
c. quadrant
d. arc

Answer: c
Points that lie on the same plane are called

a. coplanar
b. parallel
c. collinear
d. oblique

Answer: a
The volume of a circular cylinder is equal to the
product of its base and altitude

a. axiom
b. postulate
c. theorem
d. corollary

Answer: c
The study of properties of figures in three
dimensions.

a. physics
b. plane trigonometry
c. solid geometry
d. trigonometry

Answer: c
A plane closed curve, all points of which are the
same distance from a point within, called the
center

a. polyhedron
b. polygon
c. circle
d. ellipse

Answer: c
What is the angle of π and less than 2π?

a. straight line
b. obtuse angle
c. oblique angle
d. acute angle

Answer: c
What is the value in degrees of 1 radian?

a. 90°
b. 57.3°
c. 60°
d. 33°

Answer: b
Prisms are named according to their ____.

a. diagonals
b. sides
c. vertices
d. bases

Answer: d
In plane geometry, two circular arcs that
together make up a full circle are called

a. coterminals arcs
b. conjugate arcs
c. congruent arcs
d. half arcs

Answer: b
Polygons are classified according to the number
of _____.

a. vertices
b. sides
c. diagonals
d. angles

Answer: b
When two planes intersects with each other, the
amount of divergence between the two planes
is expressed by measuring the

a. dihedral angle
b. plane angle
c. polyhedral angle
d. reflex angle

Answer: a
An angular unit equivalent to 1/4000 of the
circumference of a circle is called

a. mil
b. degree
c. radian
d. grad

Answer: d
Express 45° in mils.

a. 80
b. 800
c. 1600
d. 2700

Answer: b
The arc length equal to the radius of the circle is
called

a. radian
b. quarter sector
c. sector
d. semicircle

Answer: a
A five-pointed star is known as

a. pentagon
b. pentatron
c. pentagram
d. quintagram

Answer: c
If two or more lines have a single point which
lies on all of them, then they are

a. collinear
b. coplanar
c. concurrent
d. conjugate

Answer: c
The action of bringing one geometric figure into
coincidence with another is called

a. transposition
b. translation
c. superposition
d. projection

Answer: c
A line that intersect two or more lines at distinct
points

a. tangent line
b. transversal
c. bisector
d. median

Answer: b
An arc length equal to the radius of a circle.

a. grad
b. radian
c. degree
d. mil

Answer: b
An angle which is 1/400th of the full revolution.

a. gon
b. mil
c. degree
d. radian

Answer: a
Another term for gon

a. grad
b. mil
c. centesimal degree
d. a and c

Answer: d
An angle whose vertex is a point on the circle
and whose sides are chords is known as

a. interior angle
b. vertical angle
c. acute angle
d. inscribed angle

Answer: d
An angle greater than the right angle but less
than a straight angle

a. acute angle
b. obtuse angle
c. reflex angle
d. inscribed angle

Answer: b
Any angle greater than a straight angle but less
than two straight angles is known as _____
angle.

a. compliment
b. supplement
c. complex
d. reflex

Answer: d
The angle formed by the prolongation of one
side and the adjacent side of the polygon.

a. interior angle
b. acute angle
c. exterior angle
d. explementary angle

Answer: c
Two angles which have the same vertex and the
sides of one are form by extending of the other.

a. adjacent angles
b. vertical angles
c. vertical angles
d. deflection angles

Answer: c
Another term for exterior angle.

a. vertical angle
b. inscribed angle
c. reflex angle
d. deflection angle

Answer: d
What is the sum of all deflection angles in given
polygon?

a. always less than 360°

b. always equal to 360°
c. always greater than 360°
d always equal to 180°

Answer: b
The coterminal angle of 120° is

a. 240°
b. - 240°
c. 480°
d. -480°

Answer: b
Two planes intersect each other. What is the
term for the angle formed perpendicular to the
intersection of two planes?

a. solid angle
b. plane angle
c. base angle
d. dihedral angle

Answer: d
When a terminal side of an angle coincides with
an axis, the angle is a

a. co-terminal angle
b. right angle
c. quadrantal angle
d. reflex angle

Answer: c
If the exterior angle of a polygon is obtuse, its
corresponding interior angle is

a. an acute angle
b. also an obtuse angle
c. a reflex angle
d. always greater than 360°

Answer: a
The measure of 2.25 revolutions
counterclockwise is

a. 835°
b. 805°
c. 810°
d. 815°

Answer: d (correct answer is 810°)

Solid angles are measured in

a. mil
b. radians
c. steradians
d. circular mils

Answer: c
What is the largest measure (in steradians) of a
solid angle

a. 2π
b. 4π
c. 8π
d. π

Answer: b
Steradians measure in space in analog of ____
measured in the plane.

a. radians
b. degrees
c. mils
d. grads

Answer: a
A part of a circle is called

a. sector
b. segment
c. chord
d. arc

Answer: d
It is a union of the chord of a circle and the
intercepted arc.

a. sector
b. segment
c. lune
d. zone

Answer: b
A ____ of a circle in the figure bounded by two
radii and the intercepted arc.

a. major arc
b. minor arc
c. segment
d. sector

Answer: d
The apothem of a polygon is the ____ of its
inscribed circle.

a. radius
b. circumference
c. diameter
d. length

Answer: a
As the area of the circle increases, the ratio of its
circumference to its diameter

a. increases
b. remains constant
c. decreases
d. will be equal to 1

Answer: b
A circle is said to be _____ to a polygon having
the same perimeter with that of the circle.

a. congruent
b. isoperimetric
c. proportional
d. convex

Answer: b
Which of the following is NOT a property of a circle?

a. through 3 points not in a straight line, only 1 circle

can be drawn
b. a tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius
at the point of tangency and conversely
c. an inscribed angle is measured by one half of the
intercepted arc
d. the arcs of two circles subtended by equal central
angles are always equal.

Answer: d
All circles having the same center but of unequal
radii are called

a. concentric circles
b. eccentric circles
c. inner circles
d. pythagorean circles

Answer: a
Two chords of a circle which joins a point on the
circle to the end points of a diameter and forms
a right angle.

A. complementary chords
b. supplementary chords
c. focal chords
d. chords of contrast

Answer: b
The center of the inscribed circle of a triangle is
known as _____ of the triangle.

a. circumcenter
b. incenter
c. excenter
d. orthocenter

Answer: b
Supplementary chords are two chords which
join a point on the circle to the endpoints of a
diameter. The supplemental chords subtend
a/an ______ angle.

a. acute
b. right
c. obtuse
d. reflex

Answer: b
A circle or radius R has a curvature of

a. R2
b. 1/R
c. 2R
d. 𝑅

Answer: b
A polygon is _____ when no side, when
extended, will pass through the interior of the
polygon.

a. convex
b. equilateral
c. isoperimetric
d. similar

Answer: a
A polygon is said to be regular polygon if its is

a. convex
b. all sides are congruent
c. all angles are congruent
d. all of the above

Answer: d
Polygon is inscribed in the same circle called

a. concentric polygons
b. ocentric polygons
c. concyclic polygons
d. orthocentric polygons

Answer: c
If n is the number of sides of a polygon, then the
sum of all interior angles of a polygon is
expressed as

a. (n + 2) 180°
b. (n/2) 180°
c. (n – 2) 180°
d. (n/2) (n – 3)

Answer: c
If n is the number of sides of a polygon, then the
number of diagonals of a polygon is expressed
as

a. n!
b. ( n – 1)!
c. (n/2) (n – 3)
d. (n/3) (n – 2)

Answer: c
What do you call a polygon with 11 sides?

a. unagon
b. unogon
c. undecagon
d. dodecagon

Answer: c
Pentagon is to 5 sides as ____ is to 11 sides.

a. heptagon
b. septagon
c. unidecagon
d. hendecagon

Answer: d
A polygon having 12 sides is called

a. bidecagon
b. dodecagon
c. nonagon
d. pentedecagon

Answer: b
A polygon of 100 sides is called

a. chilliagon
b. ennagon
c. perigon
d. milliagon

Answer: a
The highest point of a figure relative to a
baseline or plane is called

a. summit
b. summit
c. highest ordinate
d. terminal point

Answer: b
Indicate the false statement.

a. a trapezoid is a quadrilateral two and only two of

whose sides are parallel
b. the sum of two sides of a triangle is greater than
the third side and their difference is less than the
third side
c. a diagonal of a polygon is a line joining any non-
consecutive vertices
d. two angles are complementary if their sum is 180°

Answer: d
Which of the following statement is correct?

a. all right-angled triangles are similar

b. all isosceles triangles are similar
c. all equilateral triangles are similar
d. all rectangles are similar

Answer: c
A quadrilateral with no sides parallel.

a. trapezoid
b. rhombus
c. rhomboid
d. trapezium

Answer: d
Which of the following BEST describes Ptolemy’s
theorem

a. it is use only for quadrilaterals

b. it is just a modification of Brahmagupta’s
theorem
c. it is used for only cyclic quadrilaterals
d. the sum of the square of the sides is equal to
the square of the diagonals of a given
quadrilateral
Answer: c
The five-pointed star described by the diagonals
of a regular pentagon

a. perigon
b. pentegram
c. penacle
d. pentegram or penacle

Answer: d
The geometric figure remaining after a
parallelogram has been removed from one
corner of a larger similar polygon.

a. google
b. gnomon
c. gaussian plane
d. lozenge

Answer: b
An oblique-angled parallelogram with for sides
equal is called

a. rhombus
b. diamond
c. lozenge
d. all of the above

Answer: d
A non-convex quadrilateral with two pairs of
adjacent equal sides is called

a. trapezium
b. kite
c. deltroid
d. diamond

Answer: c
What is another term for a parallelogram?

a. rectangle
b. quadrangle
c. diamond
d. rhomboid

Answer: d
Prisms are classified according to their

a. bases
b. prism
c. truncated prism
d. prismatoid

Answer: a
A solid cut of a given solid by two non parallel
planes is called

a. frustum
b. prism
c. truncated prism
d. prismatoid

Answer: c
A polyhedron having bases two polygons in
parallel planes and for lateral faces triangles or
trapezoids with one side lying on the other base
of the polyhedron

a. pyramid
b. cone
c. prismatoid
d. truncated prism

Answer: c
Portion of regular solid left after cutting off the
upper part by a plane parallel to the base.

a. frustum
b. ungula
c. truncated solid
d. prismatoid

Answer: a
Body or space bounded by surface every point
of which is equidistant from a point within

a. circle
b. sphere
c. spheroid
d. ellipsoid

Answer: b
A solid bounded by a zone and the planes of the
zone’s base.

a. spherical sector
b. spherical segment
c. lune
d. spherical excess

Answer: b
The intersection of the sphere and the plane
through the center is called

a. great circle
b. small circle
c. poles
d. polar distance

Answer: a
The portion of a sphere enclosed between two
great semi-circles having common end points,
including the semi-circle

a. spherical excess
b. spherical segment
c. zone
d. lune

Answer: d
A portion of the surface of the sphere included
between two parallel planes

a. spherical excess
b. spherical segment
c. zone
d. lune

Answer: c
If R is the radius of the sphere and h is the
distance between two parallel plane, the area of
the zone is

a. 2πRh
b. 4πRh
c. πh2 (3R – h)/3
d. 4π (R – h)

Answer: a
The solid bounded by two great circles and the
surface of the sphere is known as

a. spherical zone
b. spherical segment
c. spherical cone
d. spherical wedge

Answer: d
A cone or cylinder with its top cut-off by a plane
oblique to the base

a. frustum
b. prismoid
c. prismatoid
d. ungula

Answer: d
A term given to cylinder with elliptical cross-
section

a. cylindroid
b. cylindoid
c. ovaloid
d. deltroid

Answer: a
A doughnut-like surface of revolution generated
by rotating the circle through 360° in space but
about a line in its plane but now passing
through the circle.

a. torus
b. annulus
c. anchor
d. all of the above

Answer: a
A regular solid star in a shape that is radiating
from center like rays of star

a. pentagram
b. pentegon
c. stellated solid
d. archimedean solid

Answer: c
Formed by intersection of rays from one point
reflected or refracted from a curvature surface.

a. envelop
b. caustic
c. evolute
d. pencil

Answer: b
The regular polyhedron is a solid with all its
faces identical regular polygons. The regular
polyhedrons are also known as

a. Euclidean solids
b. Pythagorean solids
c. Platonic solids
d. Newtonian solids

Answer: c
There are how many regular polyhedra known
to man?

a. 5
b. 3
c. 7
d. 10

Answer: a
An icosahedron is a regular polyhedron of ___
faces.

a. 12
b. 14
c. 16
d. 20

Answer: d
A regular polyhedron with 6 sides is called

a. dodecahedron
b. hexahedron
c. tetrahedron
d. octahedron

Answer: b
The face of a regular tetrahedron is a

a. square
b. pentagon
c. hexagon
d. triangle

Answer: d
The face of a regular octahedron is a

a. square
b. pentagon
c. hexagon
d. triangle

Answer: d
The face of a regular dodecahedron is a

a. square
b. pentagon
c. hexagon
d. triangle

Answer: b
The face of a regular icosahedron is a

a. square
b. pentagon
c. hexagon
d. triangle

Answer: d
Which regular polyhedron does not have a face
a triangle?

a. tetrahedron
b. octahedron
c. icosahedron
d. dodecahedron

Answer: d
How many edges are there in a dodecagon?

A. 6
b. 12
c. 30
d. 8

Answer: c
A tetrahedron has ___ vertices.

a. 4
b. 3
c. 6
d. 5

Answer: a
Given two solids and a plane. Supposed that every
plane parallel to the given plane intersecting one of
the two solids also intersects the other and gives
cross-sections with the same area, then the two
solids have the same volume. This is known as the

a. unit postulate
b. plane postulate
c. parallel postulate
d. Cavalieri’s postulate

Answer: d
Who formulated the Cavalieri’s Principle?

a. Harold Cavalieri
b. Buenventura Cavalieri
c. Joefry Cavalieri
d. Carl Cabalieri

Answer: b
A line segment that is divided into two
segments, a greater a and a smaller b such that
the length of a + b is to a and a is to b. such
division is known as

a. Golden segment
b. golden ratio
c. golden proportion
d. all of the above

Answer: b
The volume of a paraboloid is equal to ___ the
volume o circumscribing cylinder.

a. 1/3
b. ½
c. ¼
d. 2/3

Answer: b