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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Time in a Bottle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Hepatitis.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) Scurvy.

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

3. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.
(a) Brain.
(b) Head.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Stars.

4. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.
(b) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.
(c) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(d) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?

3. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?

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

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

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