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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did H-3 weigh?
(a) 60 pounds.
(b) 20 pounds.
(c) 100 pounds.
(d) 2 pounds.

2. What is the size of the H-4?
(a) Five inches in diameter.
(b) An area of six centimeters.
(c) 4" x 4" x 4".
(d) 2" x 2" x 2".

3. Who prepared the pocket watch for the assembly line?
(a) Kendall.
(b) Harrison.
(c) Earnshaw.
(d) Arnold.

4. Which clock was capable of winning Harrison the Longitude Prize?
(a) H-2.
(b) H-3.
(c) H-1.
(d) H-4.

5. How many working parts does the H-3 have?
(a) 753.
(b) 453.
(c) 675.
(d) 962.

6. The number of pocket watches grew from one in 1737 to how many in 1815?
(a) Four hundred.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Three thousand.
(d) Five thousand.

7. How many more times accurate was the H-4 than the Longitude Act required?
(a) Two times.
(b) Three times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Four times.

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

9. Which clock was Harrison's greatest triumph?
(a) H-4.
(b) H-3.
(c) H-2.
(d) H-1.

10. How much did Harrison receive to complete H-4 after the initial tests?
(a) 25,000 pounds.
(b) 1,500 pounds.
(c) 15,000 pounds.
(d) 500 pounds.

11. How would you describe Nevil Maskelyne?
(a) A patriot.
(b) Lucky.
(c) A villian.
(d) A scientist.

12. Due to the astronomers' ______________, Harrison would face much resistance after he finished his greatest work.
(a) Elitism.
(b) Egos.
(c) Racism.
(d) Classism.

13. Who did Harrison first contact when he arrived in London?
(a) Edmund Halley.
(b) Dr. James Bradley.
(c) Admiral Norris.
(d) George Graham.

14. When was the Longitude Act repealed?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1800.

15. How many days per month would the lunar distance method not work.
(a) 5 days.
(b) 13 days.
(c) 7 days.
(d) 2 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people were not members of the Board of Longitude?

2. What kind of solution to the longitude problem did the Board of Longitude originally desire?

3. Describe the relationship between Harrison and the Royal Academy of Astronomers.

4. How were Harrison and Maskelyne different?

5. How did John Arnold make so many watches at such an economical price?

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