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

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

3. What was built at Greenwich Park?
(a) The Paris Observatory.
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(c) The Royal Observatory.
(d) The Celestial Palace.

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

5. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?
(a) Harrison's clock.
(b) Medication to ward off scurvy.
(c) A compass.
(d) Smith's map.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?

2. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?

3. What was Harrison's most prized accomplishment?

4. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?

5. After the Association ran aground and the captain's body was found, what of value was found on him?

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