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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. Who was in command of the ships that ran into the Scilly Islands near England?
(a) Samuel Pepys.
(b) Commodore George Anson.
(c) Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell.
(d) John Harrison.

2. What was the Board of Longitude's response after the initial testing of H-4?
(a) The Board awarded Harrison the longitude prize.
(b) The Board purchased the design of H-4 from Harrison.
(c) The Board called for a reevaluation of H-4.
(d) The Board took all funding from Harrison away for cheating on the testing of H-4.

3. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?
(a) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.
(b) Made the ship arrive three weeks ahead of schedule.
(c) Kept good track of the ship's longitude.
(d) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.

4. Who took Nathaniel Bliss's spot on the Board of Longitude?
(a) Nevil Maskelyne.
(b) He was not replaced.
(c) John Harrison.
(d) Thomas Bradley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which clock was capable of winning Harrison the Longitude Prize?

2. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?

3. When did clock makers begin to design clocks to measure longitude?

4. What was the powder of sympathy method to determine longitude called?

5. Why did Harrison take so long to build the H-3?

(see the answer key)

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