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

2. What does the coiled balance spring do in clocks?
(a) Prevents waves from destabilizing the clock.
(b) Allows the clock to keep a constant temperature.
(c) Prevents the pendulum from losing time.
(d) Allows the navigator to know the time in the home port.

3. What was the official title of the monetary award for solving the longitude problem?
(a) The Longitude Award.
(b) The Longitude Problem.
(c) The Longitude Prize.
(d) The Longitude Solution.

4. Who built a watch within a vacuum that could tell stable time?
(a) Newton.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Thacket.
(d) Flamsteed.

5. In AD 150, who plotted lines of longitude and latitude?
(a) Moses.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Newton.
(d) Ptolemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the magnetic compass invented?

2. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?

5. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?

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