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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 wrote about the benefits to an astronomical solution.
(c) He began to believe that there was no hope for solving the longitude problem.
(d) He was so frustrated he gave up the quest to solve longitude.

3. Who explained the moons of Jupiter with the velocity of light?
(a) Cassini.
(b) Tycho Brahe.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Ole Roemer.

4. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?
(a) Hooke.
(b) Both.
(c) Hugyens.
(d) Neither.

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

6. How long did Harrison work before receiving his monetary reward?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 40 years.

7. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?
(a) Centurion.
(b) Eagle.
(c) Madre de Deus.
(d) Romney.

8. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?
(a) Tierra del Feugo.
(b) Cape Noir.
(c) Scilly Islands.
(d) Juan Fernandez Island.

9. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Acts of piracy.
(c) War.
(d) Espionage.

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

11. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) Second.
(c) Day.
(d) Minute.

12. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.
(a) Heaven.
(b) Brain.
(c) Stars.
(d) Head.

13. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.
(a) Currents.
(b) Compass.
(c) Maps.
(d) Sky: sun, moon, stars and constellations.

14. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?
(a) Thomas Blundeville.
(b) Christian Huygens.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Vincenzio.

15. How many times was Harrison married?
(a) Three times.
(b) Never.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?

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

3. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?

4. What did Huygen's published argument state?

5. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?

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