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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(b) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.
(c) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.
(d) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.

3. What was Flamsteed's title?
(a) "French stars master."
(b) "Celestial navigator."
(c) "King of naval longitude."
(d) "Astronomical observator."

4. What did Huygen's published argument state?
(a) Jupiters moons were really rings.
(b) Longitude could be determined by the moon.
(c) A clock could establish longitude at sea.
(d) A map with correct currents was necessary to navigate at sea.

5. Who helped Harrison build a clock that never lost more than a second per month?
(a) His colleague, Galileo.
(b) His cousin, Jim.
(c) His brother, Arthur.
(d) His brother-in-law, James.

6. What was the tool introduced by John Davis in 1595 to better look at the sun called?
(a) The sidestaff.
(b) The backstaff.
(c) The cane.
(d) The cross-staff.

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

8. How accurate was the solution to longitude to be?
(a) At least five degrees.
(b) Exact, no room for error.
(c) Less than ten degrees.
(d) Within half a degree.

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

10. What was one disadvantage to using the magnetic variation method to determine longitude?
(a) Compasses weren't continuously accurate.
(b) It led to misalignment with the stars.
(c) It could only be used on clear nights.
(d) Compasses were to large to take on ships.

11. Who built a watch within a vacuum that could tell stable time?
(a) Flamsteed.
(b) Newton.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Thacket.

12. What was the punishment for mutiny on the Association?
(a) Water boarding.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Thrown overboard.
(d) Decapitation.

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

14. The Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to the problem of longitude relied on which two experts?
(a) Whiston and Ditton.
(b) Ptolomy and Jupiter.
(c) Flamsteed and Thacker.
(d) Newton and Halley.

15. What did Harrison build that still function today?
(a) Microscopes.
(b) Telephones.
(c) Clocks.
(d) Telescopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order for Ditton's and Whiston's plan to determine longitude to work, what would have to be done?

2. Which of the following was NOT an early player in the quest for the longitude prize?

3. Where did Newton believe the answer to the longitude problem lie?

4. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?

5. The placement of the prime meridian was a ____________ decision.

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