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

2. What was the problem with pendulum clocks on ships?
(a) Pendulum clocks were so valuable, the main concern was theft.
(b) There were no problems, pemdulum clocks were very accurate onboard ships.
(c) Pendulum clocks would always point north.
(d) The ship's rocking would slow down or speed up the clock.

3. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:
(a) Produce a clock that worked at sea.
(b) Get the Royal Society to declare a winner.
(c) Collaborate on a working clock.
(d) Collect on the monetary prize offered for solving the problem of longitude.

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

5. What did Humphrey Ditton propose to use to solve the longitude problem?
(a) Sounds.
(b) Compass.
(c) Telescope.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one benefit of the Whiston-Ditton proposal?

2. What did Huygen's published argument state?

3. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

4. In AD 150, who plotted lines of longitude and latitude?

5. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:

(see the answer key)

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