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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 toy does the narrator play with at the beginning of Chapter 1: Imaginary Lines?
(a) A yo-yo.
(b) A globe.
(c) A spinning top.
(d) A beaded wire ball.

2. What was the punishment for mutiny on the Association?
(a) Water boarding.
(b) Decapitation.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Thrown overboard.

3. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:
(a) Produce a clock that worked at sea.
(b) Collect on the monetary prize offered for solving the problem of longitude.
(c) Collaborate on a working clock.
(d) Get the Royal Society to declare a winner.

4. Early clocks weren't up to measuring longitude at sea for two reasons. They were not accurate and changed because of what while at sea?
(a) Wind.
(b) Temperature.
(c) Speed of the boat.
(d) Rocking of the boat.

5. What was the problem with pendulum clocks on ships?
(a) There were no problems, pemdulum clocks were very accurate onboard ships.
(b) The ship's rocking would slow down or speed up the clock.
(c) Pendulum clocks would always point north.
(d) Pendulum clocks were so valuable, the main concern was theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was built at Greenwich Park?

2. What was one benefit of the Whiston-Ditton proposal?

3. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?

4. What does the term "dead reckoning" refer to?

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

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