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

2. In the earliest lines of latitude, what marked the zero-degree line?
(a) The tropic of cancer.
(b) The north pole.
(c) The prime meridian.
(d) The equator.

3. Early clocks weren't up to measuring longitude at sea for two reasons. They were not accurate and changed because of what while at sea?
(a) Wind.
(b) Speed of the boat.
(c) Temperature.
(d) Rocking of the boat.

4. What did WIlliam Whiston contribute to the longitude debate?
(a) He proposed using sound and light.
(b) He proposed using the moon and the stars.
(c) He proposed using a telescope and a compass.
(d) He proposed using animals and sound.

5. Thirty miles is how many degrees of longitude?
(a) Five degrees.
(b) Eight degrees.
(c) Half a degree.
(d) Ten degrees.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to the problem of longitude relied on which two experts?

2. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:

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

4. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?

5. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?

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