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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?
(a) That sea travel became more treacherous.
(b) That he was losing more territory to his astronomers than his enemies.
(c) That maps based on stars were inaccurate.
(d) That the economic costs of not knowing longitude were bankrupting his country.

2. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?
(a) Sailing around the world.
(b) Inventing the pendulum clock.
(c) Discovering the moons of Jupiter.
(d) Publishing accurate maps.

3. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:
(a) A magic box.
(b) A technological reversal.
(c) A moment in time.
(d) A lump of metal.

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

5. In AD 150, who plotted lines of longitude and latitude?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Newton.
(d) Moses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could have avoided the tragedy near the Scilly Islands?

2. How many sailors died near the Scilly Islands?

3. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?

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

5. Who explained the moons of Jupiter with the velocity of light?

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