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

2. Where did William sail on the second test of H-4?
(a) Australia.
(b) The West Indies.
(c) The United States.
(d) Africa.

3. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?
(a) Kept good track of the ship's longitude.
(b) Made the ship arrive three weeks ahead of schedule.
(c) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.
(d) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.

4. Which of Harrison's clocks continue to function to this day?
(a) H-3 and H-4.
(b) Only H-4.
(c) H-1 and H-2.
(d) H-1, H-2, H-3, and H-4.

5. What kind of solution to the longitude problem did the Board of Longitude originally desire?
(a) An astronomical one.
(b) A clock based one.
(c) A telescope based one.
(d) A map based one.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Harrison and Maskelyne different?

2. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.

3. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

4. The members of the Board of Longitude were members of which class of society?

5. Who developed the "lunar distance method" to longitude?

(see the answer key)

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