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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) Brain.
(d) Heaven.

2. 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) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.
(d) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.

3. Harrison was an avid ___________.
(a) Cricket player.
(b) Astronomer.
(c) Reader.
(d) Photographer.

4. Who was Harrison's right-hand man in building clocks?
(a) His father, Joe.
(b) His son, Jon.
(c) His son, William.
(d) His friend, Newton.

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

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

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

8. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?
(a) A ship.
(b) A map.
(c) A woman.
(d) A patent.

9. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?
(a) A compass.
(b) Smith's map.
(c) Harrison's clock.
(d) Medication to ward off scurvy.

10. When did clock makers begin to design clocks to measure longitude?
(a) 14th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 15th century.

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

12. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?
(a) All but two.
(b) Half.
(c) One quarter.
(d) 500.

13. What was one of Harrison's innovations?
(a) A vacuum that held out temperature changes.
(b) Gears that could last for extended periods at sea.
(c) A brass and steel pendulum that aided in keeping time despite temperature changes.
(d) A new clock face that revolutionized the way we tell time.

14. What did WIlliam Whiston contribute to the longitude debate?
(a) He proposed using a telescope and a compass.
(b) He proposed using sound and light.
(c) He proposed using the moon and the stars.
(d) He proposed using animals and sound.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harrison build that still function today?

2. What was one disadvantage to using the magnetic variation method to determine longitude?

3. Before using clocks to navigate longitude, sailors used the __________.

4. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?

5. How accurate was the solution to longitude to be?

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