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

2. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?
(a) A patent.
(b) A ship.
(c) A woman.
(d) A map.

3. What was built at Greenwich Park?
(a) The Celestial Palace.
(b) The Royal Observatory.
(c) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(d) The Paris Observatory.

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?
(a) Vincenzio.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Thomas Blundeville.
(d) Christian Huygens.

5. What toy does the narrator play with at the beginning of Chapter 1: Imaginary Lines?
(a) A beaded wire ball.
(b) A yo-yo.
(c) A globe.
(d) A spinning top.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Association ran aground and the captain's body was found, what of value was found on him?

2. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

3. Who was in command of the ships that ran into the Scilly Islands near England?

4. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?

5. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?

(see the answer key)

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