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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Prize.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main point of Chapter 6: The Prize?
(a) Determine the winner of the longitude prize.
(b) Explain the goal of the people in the book: win the prize by solving the problem of longitude.
(c) Award a prize of land for an article published about latitude.
(d) Explain the clock based approach to longitude.

2. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?
(a) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.
(b) Kept good track of the ship's longitude.
(c) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.
(d) Made the ship arrive three weeks ahead of schedule.

3. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?
(a) He angrily turned them all over to Newton.
(b) He burned most of his maps.
(c) He made incorrect copies and gave those to the British government.
(d) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.

4. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?
(a) He began to believe that there was no hope for solving the longitude problem.
(b) He began to think a clock might solve the longitude problem.
(c) He wrote about the benefits to an astronomical solution.
(d) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In order for Ditton's and Whiston's plan to determine longitude to work, what would have to be done?

4. What was the punishment for mutiny on the Association?

5. What was built at Greenwich Park?

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