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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. Which of Harrison's clocks continue to function to this day?
(a) Only H-4.
(b) H-1, H-2, H-3, and H-4.
(c) H-1 and H-2.
(d) H-3 and H-4.

2. Which of the following was NOT an early player in the quest for the longitude prize?
(a) Newton.
(b) Flamsteed.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Halley.

3. What kind of mechanisms did the H-4 contain?
(a) Copper mechanisms.
(b) Gold mechanisms.
(c) Diamond mechanisms.
(d) Silver mechanisms.

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

5. After Bradley died, who filled the open slot on the Board of Longitude.
(a) Bliss.
(b) Harrison.
(c) Maskelyne.
(d) It remains vacant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the response by the Board of Longitude to Harrison's first presentation?

2. Thirty miles is how many degrees of longitude?

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

4. Which clock can function today, but is not run in order to preserve its parts?

5. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

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