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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.
(b) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(c) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.
(d) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.

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

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?
(a) Vincenzio.
(b) Thomas Blundeville.
(c) Christian Huygens.
(d) Galileo.

5. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?
(a) Make one immortal.
(b) Point north when mixed with water.
(c) Heal at a distance.
(d) Cure scurvy.

6. What did Harrison build that still function today?
(a) Microscopes.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Telescopes.
(d) Clocks.

7. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?
(a) Solar and lunar eclipses.
(b) Storms.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Comets.

8. How accurate was the solution to longitude to be?
(a) Less than ten degrees.
(b) At least five degrees.
(c) Within half a degree.
(d) Exact, no room for error.

9. When did clock makers begin to design clocks to measure longitude?
(a) 16th century.
(b) 14th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 15th century.

10. Early clocks weren't up to measuring longitude at sea for two reasons. They were not accurate and changed because of what while at sea?
(a) Wind.
(b) Rocking of the boat.
(c) Temperature.
(d) Speed of the boat.

11. What does the term "dead reckoning" refer to?
(a) An early way to navigate at sea using the position of stars and the moon.
(b) A way to verify the number of sailors lost at sea.
(c) An advanced way to determine longitude using clocks.
(d) A primitive way to navigate at sea using estimates from a fixed point.

12. Who used the moons of Jupiter to solve the longitude problem?
(a) Commodore Anson.
(b) Newton.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Ptolomy.

13. What role did the Board of Longitude play?
(a) Test the various proposals to the solution to longitude.
(b) Unite angered seamen around the longitude prolem.
(c) Provided funding for research to solve the longitude problem.
(d) Bring an international committee to review the longitude problem.

14. What is the main point of Chapter 6: The Prize?
(a) Explain the goal of the people in the book: win the prize by solving the problem of longitude.
(b) Determine the winner of the longitude prize.
(c) Award a prize of land for an article published about latitude.
(d) Explain the clock based approach to longitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?

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

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

4. What was the tool introduced by John Davis in 1595 to better look at the sun called?

5. What was one benefit of the Whiston-Ditton proposal?

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