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

2. What was Harrison's most prized accomplishment?
(a) Inventing a clock with hands.
(b) Inventing military time.
(c) Inventing a clock that would keep accurate time at sea.
(d) Discovering the lunar method of calculating longitude.

3. Who developed the "lunar distance method" to longitude?
(a) Admiral Shovell.
(b) John Flamsteed.
(c) Johannes Werner.
(d) Ole Roemer.

4. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?
(a) On the moon.
(b) In a hidden basement.
(c) In a ship.
(d) In his father's watch.

5. What does the term "dead reckoning" refer to?
(a) An advanced way to determine longitude using clocks.
(b) A way to verify the number of sailors lost at sea.
(c) An early way to navigate at sea using the position of stars and the moon.
(d) A primitive way to navigate at sea using estimates from a fixed point.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Huygen's published argument state?

2. Who used the moons of Jupiter to solve the longitude problem?

3. The difference between longitude and latitude is that latitude lines _____________ each other.

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

5. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

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