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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Newton believe the answer to the longitude problem lie?
(a) An astronomical solution.
(b) A clock based solution.
(c) The wounded dog theory.
(d) A sound and light solution.

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

3. What was Huygens best known as?
(a) The first great philosopher.
(b) The first great horologist.
(c) The first great scientist.
(d) The first great astronomer.

4. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Hepatitis.

5. What advantage did the magnetic variation method have over astronomical approaches at determining longitude?
(a) It utilized new technology in clockmaking.
(b) It didn't rely on wouding animals.
(c) It did not depend on knowing the time at two places at once.
(d) Longitude could now be charted on a map.

6. After the Association ran aground and the captain's body was found, what of value was found on him?
(a) A pendulum clock.
(b) A pouch of spices.
(c) An emerald ring.
(d) A diamond necklace.

7. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?
(a) Taxes on the use of maps with longitude.
(b) The lunar method as the government's way to calculate longitude.
(c) A uniform way to calculate longitude.
(d) A monetary prize for solving the problem of longitude.

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

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

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

11. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?
(a) Cure scurvy.
(b) Make one immortal.
(c) Heal at a distance.
(d) Point north when mixed with water.

12. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?
(a) Storms.
(b) Comets.
(c) Solar and lunar eclipses.
(d) Asteroids.

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

14. What year was Harrison born?
(a) 1650.
(b) 1693.
(c) 1715.
(d) 1727.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harrison go to present his case to the Board of Longitude?

2. Early clocks weren't up to measuring longitude at sea for two reasons. They were not accurate and changed because of what while at sea?

3. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?

4. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?

5. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?

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