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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hadley and Godfrey invent?
(a) A working telescope.
(b) A working clock.
(c) A celestial navigation map.
(d) A method to calculate lunar distance.

2. What country was John Hadley from?
(a) England.
(b) United States.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

3. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?
(a) Acts of piracy.
(b) War.
(c) Espionage.
(d) Taxes.

4. What is the main point of Chapter 6: The Prize?
(a) Award a prize of land for an article published about latitude.
(b) Explain the goal of the people in the book: win the prize by solving the problem of longitude.
(c) Determine the winner of the longitude prize.
(d) Explain the clock based approach to longitude.

5. Describe the relationship between Harrison and the Royal Academy of Astronomers.
(a) They were friends.
(b) They were colleagues.
(c) They were financial backers.
(d) They were enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Harrison work before receiving his monetary reward?

2. How many times was Harrison married?

3. What country was Thomas Godfrey from?

4. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?

5. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?

(see the answer key)

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