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

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

3. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.
(a) Sky: sun, moon, stars and constellations.
(b) Currents.
(c) Compass.
(d) Maps.

4. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?
(a) Tierra del Feugo.
(b) Scilly Islands.
(c) Cape Noir.
(d) Juan Fernandez Island.

5. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.
(a) Day.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) Minute.
(d) Second.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?

2. Who used the moons of Jupiter to solve the longitude problem?

3. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

4. Who came up with a way to draw longitude meridians on the night sky?

5. In the earliest lines of latitude, what marked the zero-degree line?

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