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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who prepared the pocket watch for the assembly line?
(a) Kendall.
(b) Harrison.
(c) Earnshaw.
(d) Arnold.

2. How long did it take Harrison to build H1?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Five years.

3. Who was Edmund Halley's heir?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Thomas Godfrey
(c) Tobias Mayer.
(d) James Bradley.

4. How many days per month would the lunar distance method not work.
(a) 5 days.
(b) 13 days.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 7 days.

5. How much did H-3 weigh?
(a) 20 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 60 pounds.
(d) 2 pounds.

6. After successfully testing the H-4, how much of the Longitude Prize did Harrison receive?
(a) Half of the reward.
(b) Third of the reward.
(c) None of the reward.
(d) All of the reward.

7. What kind of mechanisms did the H-4 contain?
(a) Silver mechanisms.
(b) Diamond mechanisms.
(c) Copper mechanisms.
(d) Gold mechanisms.

8. What was the response by the Board of Longitude to Harrison's first presentation?
(a) The Board gave him a loan to build a second clock.
(b) The Board asked him to leave London.
(c) The Board asked for additional proof that his clock worked.
(d) The Board awarded him the monetary prize for solving the longitude problem.

9. What happened to clockmaking after Harrison's death?
(a) Clockmaking reversed in advancement.
(b) Clockmaking halted.
(c) Clockmaking boomed.
(d) Clockmaking stalled.

10. How long did it take Harrison to build and test the H-5?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Two and a half years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Six months.

11. Which clock can function today, but is not run in order to preserve its parts?
(a) H-2.
(b) H-3.
(c) H-4.
(d) H-1.

12. When was the Longitude Act repealed?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1776.

13. What did Harrison complete in 1759?
(a) H-3.
(b) H-4.
(c) H-2.
(d) H-1.

14. How were Harrison and Maskelyne different?
(a) Maskelyne favored an analytical approach.
(b) Harrison always worked with a partner, while Maskelyne always worked alone.
(c) Maskelyne had an elite education.
(d) Harrison was much younger.

15. The number of pocket watches grew from one in 1737 to how many in 1815?
(a) Five thousand.
(b) Four hundred.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Two hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country was John Hadley from?

2. What two problems did H-3 solve that previous clock designs didn't?

3. What was the size of the H1?

4. Where did William sail on the second test of H-4?

5. The Board of Longitude demanded Harrison hand over the H-4 so it could be used by whom?

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