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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Cogmaker's Journal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Harrison go to present his case to the Board of Longitude?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Edinburgh.

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

3. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?
(a) Taxes on the use of maps with longitude.
(b) A monetary prize for solving the problem of longitude.
(c) A uniform way to calculate longitude.
(d) The lunar method as the government's way to calculate longitude.

4. How many sailors died near the Scilly Islands?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

5. What was Huygens best known as?
(a) The first great astronomer.
(b) The first great scientist.
(c) The first great philosopher.
(d) The first great horologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference in measuring longitude and latitude?

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

3. What was built at Greenwich Park?

4. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?

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

(see the answer key)

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