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

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

3. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?
(a) "Pea soup."
(b) "London fog."
(c) "Dirty weather."
(d) "Smokestacks.:

4. The Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to the problem of longitude relied on which two experts?
(a) Whiston and Ditton.
(b) Ptolomy and Jupiter.
(c) Newton and Halley.
(d) Flamsteed and Thacker.

5. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?
(a) Harrison's clock.
(b) Medication to ward off scurvy.
(c) A compass.
(d) Smith's map.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?

3. What was built at Greenwich Park?

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

5. What does the coiled balance spring do in clocks?

(see the answer key)

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