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

2. What was the punishment for mutiny on the Association?
(a) Decapitation.
(b) Water boarding.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Thrown overboard.

3. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Romney.
(c) Madre de Deus.
(d) Centurion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.

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

3. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?

4. What was the problem with pendulum clocks on ships?

5. When did Harrison learn of the Longitude Prize?

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