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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 unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?
(a) Solar and lunar eclipses.
(b) Storms.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Comets.

2. 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) Speed of the boat.
(b) Rocking of the boat.
(c) Wind.
(d) Temperature.

3. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?
(a) Both.
(b) Hugyens.
(c) Hooke.
(d) Neither.

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

5. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:
(a) A magic box.
(b) A moment in time.
(c) A lump of metal.
(d) A technological reversal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

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

3. What did Huygen's published argument state?

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

5. What did WIlliam Whiston contribute to the longitude debate?

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