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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 Flamsteed's title?
(a) "Celestial navigator."
(b) "French stars master."
(c) "Astronomical observator."
(d) "King of naval longitude."

2. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.
(a) Brain.
(b) Stars.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Head.

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

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

5. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) Day.
(c) Second.
(d) Minute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Huygen's published argument state?

3. How accurate was the solution to longitude to be?

4. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?

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

(see the answer key)

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