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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. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 25.

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

3. What does the coiled balance spring do in clocks?
(a) Allows the navigator to know the time in the home port.
(b) Prevents waves from destabilizing the clock.
(c) Prevents the pendulum from losing time.
(d) Allows the clock to keep a constant temperature.

4. What was Huygens best known as?
(a) The first great horologist.
(b) The first great scientist.
(c) The first great philosopher.
(d) The first great astronomer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?

2. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?

3. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

4. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?

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

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