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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Portraits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one benefit of the Whiston-Ditton proposal?
(a) Whiston and Ditton each became rich off of their proposal.
(b) It led to the monetary award for a solution to the longitude problem.
(c) It led to glory for England for being the first to solve the problem of longitude.
(d) It was a reliable method of determining longitude.

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

3. In AD 150, who plotted lines of longitude and latitude?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Newton.
(c) Moses.
(d) Galileo.

4. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 30.
(d) 25.

5. What was the powder of sympathy method to determine longitude called?
(a) The magical powder theory.
(b) The healing bird theory.
(c) The wounded dog theory.
(d) The barking animal theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of mechanisms did the H-4 contain?

2. How many times was Harrison married?

3. Which of the following people were not members of the Board of Longitude?

4. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.

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

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