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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Hands on Heaven's Clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Harrison go to present his case to the Board of Longitude?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Paris.
(c) Oxford.
(d) London.

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

4. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?
(a) Romney.
(b) Madre de Deus.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Centurion.

5. Why was it remarkable for Harrison to build his first pendulum clock?
(a) He came from a very poor family with no means to build a clock.
(b) He was an adamant believer in the astronomical solution to longitude.
(c) He wasn't a watchmakers apprentice.
(d) His design was stolen midway through building the clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did astronomers feel about Harrison's clock idea for solving the problem of longitude?

2. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?

3. When did Harrison learn of the Longitude Prize?

4. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?

5. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?

(see the answer key)

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