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

2. The difference between longitude and latitude is that latitude lines _____________ each other.
(a) Intersect.
(b) Bisect.
(c) Parallel.
(d) Converge with.

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

4. When did Harrison learn of the Longitude Prize?
(a) 1735.
(b) 1712.
(c) 1700.
(d) 1727.

5. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?
(a) Solar and lunar eclipses.
(b) Storms.
(c) Asteroids.
(d) Comets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What toy does the narrator play with at the beginning of Chapter 1: Imaginary Lines?

2. What did King Louis build in Paris?

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

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

5. What was the punishment for mutiny on the Association?

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