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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Time in a Bottle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?
(a) Publishing accurate maps.
(b) Discovering the moons of Jupiter.
(c) Inventing the pendulum clock.
(d) Sailing around the world.

2. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?
(a) Hepatitis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Scurvy.

3. How many sailors died near the Scilly Islands?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,000.

4. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?
(a) "Pea soup."
(b) "London fog."
(c) "Smokestacks.:
(d) "Dirty weather."

5. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.
(a) Currents.
(b) Sky: sun, moon, stars and constellations.
(c) Maps.
(d) Compass.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Huygens best known as?

2. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?

3. What was built at Greenwich Park?

4. Who used the moons of Jupiter to solve the longitude problem?

5. What could have avoided the tragedy near the Scilly Islands?

(see the answer key)

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