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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The Diamond Timekeeper.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?
(a) Publishing accurate maps.
(b) Sailing around the world.
(c) Inventing the pendulum clock.
(d) Discovering the moons of Jupiter.

4. What did Harrison complete in 1759?
(a) H-1.
(b) H-4.
(c) H-3.
(d) H-2.

5. What did Jeffery's make for Harrison?
(a) A compass.
(b) A telescope.
(c) A pocketwatch.
(d) A microscope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main point of Harrison's first presentation before the Board of Longitude?

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

3. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?

4. Due to the astronomers' ______________, Harrison would face much resistance after he finished his greatest work.

5. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?

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