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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. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?
(a) He angrily turned them all over to Newton.
(b) He burned most of his maps.
(c) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.
(d) He made incorrect copies and gave those to the British government.

2. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.
(b) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.
(c) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(d) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.

3. What is the main point of Chapter 6: The Prize?
(a) Determine the winner of the longitude prize.
(b) Explain the clock based approach to longitude.
(c) Explain the goal of the people in the book: win the prize by solving the problem of longitude.
(d) Award a prize of land for an article published about latitude.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:

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

3. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

4. Thirty miles is how many degrees of longitude?

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

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