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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Powder of Sympathy.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?
(a) That he was losing more territory to his astronomers than his enemies.
(b) That the economic costs of not knowing longitude were bankrupting his country.
(c) That sea travel became more treacherous.
(d) That maps based on stars were inaccurate.

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

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

5. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?
(a) "Smokestacks.:
(b) "London fog."
(c) "Pea soup."
(d) "Dirty weather."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one disadvantage to using the magnetic variation method to determine longitude?

2. What was Huygens best known as?

3. What did WIlliam Whiston contribute to the longitude debate?

4. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.

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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