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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. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?
(a) He began to believe that there was no hope for solving the longitude problem.
(b) He wrote about the benefits to an astronomical solution.
(c) He began to think a clock might solve the longitude problem.
(d) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.

2. Why was it remarkable for Harrison to build his first pendulum clock?
(a) He was an adamant believer in the astronomical solution to longitude.
(b) His design was stolen midway through building the clock.
(c) He came from a very poor family with no means to build a clock.
(d) He wasn't a watchmakers apprentice.

3. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?
(a) That sea travel became more treacherous.
(b) That maps based on stars were inaccurate.
(c) That he was losing more territory to his astronomers than his enemies.
(d) That the economic costs of not knowing longitude were bankrupting his country.

4. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?
(a) Taxes.
(b) War.
(c) Acts of piracy.
(d) Espionage.

5. When was the magnetic compass invented?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 10th century.
(c) 12th century.
(d) 15th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harrison when he built his first pendulum clock?

2. What was Huygens best known as?

3. What did King Louis build in Paris?

4. How long did Harrison work before receiving his monetary reward?

5. Who built a watch within a vacuum that could tell stable time?

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