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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. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.
(a) Maps.
(b) Currents.
(c) Compass.
(d) Sky: sun, moon, stars and constellations.

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

3. 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 wrote about the benefits to an astronomical solution.
(c) He began to think a clock might solve the longitude problem.
(d) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.

4. What was built at Greenwich Park?
(a) The Royal Observatory.
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(c) The Paris Observatory.
(d) The Celestial Palace.

5. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?
(a) Sailing around the world.
(b) Publishing accurate maps.
(c) Discovering the moons of Jupiter.
(d) Inventing the pendulum clock.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?

3. What was the tool introduced by John Davis in 1595 to better look at the sun called?

4. Who was in command of the ships that ran into the Scilly Islands near England?

5. Who developed the "lunar distance method" to longitude?

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