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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. How did Maskelyne obtain all four of Harrison's clocks?
(a) He offered him a sum more than the Longitude Prize.
(b) He came to Harrison's door with a warrant.
(c) He broke into his home and took them.
(d) He tried, but never succeeded, in obtaining Harrison's clocks.

2. What was the response by the Board of Longitude to Harrison's first presentation?
(a) The Board asked for additional proof that his clock worked.
(b) The Board gave him a loan to build a second clock.
(c) The Board asked him to leave London.
(d) The Board awarded him the monetary prize for solving the longitude problem.

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

4. What did Harrison build that still function today?
(a) Microscopes.
(b) Clocks.
(c) Telescopes.
(d) Telephones.

5. Who was famous for reducing the motion of the planets to a few equations?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) John Hadley.
(c) John Harrison.
(d) Leonhard Euler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

2. What was Huygens best known as?

3. When did clock makers begin to design clocks to measure longitude?

4. What role did the Board of Longitude play?

5. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?

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