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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 could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?
(a) Point north when mixed with water.
(b) Heal at a distance.
(c) Cure scurvy.
(d) Make one immortal.

2. Which clock did Harrison become dissatisfied with and never made to sea?
(a) H-4.
(b) H-1.
(c) H-3.
(d) H-2.

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

4. Who was Harrison's right-hand man in building clocks?
(a) His father, Joe.
(b) His son, William.
(c) His son, Jon.
(d) His friend, Newton.

5. What did King Louis build in Paris?
(a) A telescope.
(b) The Eifel Tower.
(c) An astronomical obersvatory.
(d) Notre Dame.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?

2. The Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to the problem of longitude relied on which two experts?

3. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?

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

5. Who did Harrison first contact when he arrived in London?

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