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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 did Huygen's published argument state?
(a) A map with correct currents was necessary to navigate at sea.
(b) A clock could establish longitude at sea.
(c) Jupiters moons were really rings.
(d) Longitude could be determined by the moon.

2. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?
(a) Hooke.
(b) Hugyens.
(c) Neither.
(d) Both.

3. After the Association ran aground and the captain's body was found, what of value was found on him?
(a) A pouch of spices.
(b) A pendulum clock.
(c) An emerald ring.
(d) A diamond necklace.

4. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.
(a) Heaven.
(b) Stars.
(c) Head.
(d) Brain.

5. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:
(a) Collaborate on a working clock.
(b) Collect on the monetary prize offered for solving the problem of longitude.
(c) Get the Royal Society to declare a winner.
(d) Produce a clock that worked at sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference in measuring longitude and latitude?

2. What was the problem with pendulum clocks on ships?

3. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?

4. In the earliest lines of latitude, what marked the zero-degree line?

5. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?

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