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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Prize.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who came up with a way to draw longitude meridians on the night sky?
(a) William Whiston.
(b) John Davis.
(c) Sir Kenelm Digby.
(d) Samuel Fyler.

2. What was the official title of the monetary award for solving the longitude problem?
(a) The Longitude Solution.
(b) The Longitude Prize.
(c) The Longitude Award.
(d) The Longitude Problem.

3. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?
(a) A monetary prize for solving the problem of longitude.
(b) The lunar method as the government's way to calculate longitude.
(c) Taxes on the use of maps with longitude.
(d) A uniform way to calculate longitude.

4. Who developed the "lunar distance method" to longitude?
(a) Johannes Werner.
(b) Ole Roemer.
(c) Admiral Shovell.
(d) John Flamsteed.

5. When was the magnetic compass invented?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 12th century.
(c) 10th century.
(d) 17th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What toy does the narrator play with at the beginning of Chapter 1: Imaginary Lines?

2. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?

3. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

5. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?

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