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

2. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?
(a) Scilly Islands.
(b) Cape Noir.
(c) Juan Fernandez Island.
(d) Tierra del Feugo.

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

4. When did clock makers begin to design clocks to measure longitude?
(a) 15th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 14th century.
(d) 17th century.

5. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?
(a) A uniform way to calculate longitude.
(b) A monetary prize for solving the problem of longitude.
(c) The lunar method as the government's way to calculate longitude.
(d) Taxes on the use of maps with longitude.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

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