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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?
(a) 30.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

3. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:
(a) Collaborate on a working clock.
(b) Produce a clock that worked at sea.
(c) Get the Royal Society to declare a winner.
(d) Collect on the monetary prize offered for solving the problem of longitude.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?

2. What did Huygen's published argument state?

3. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?

4. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?

5. In the earliest lines of latitude, what marked the zero-degree line?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was it unusual that John Harrison became an accomplished clockmaker?

2. In Harrison's early clockmaking years, what was his goal?

3. What was the result of Hooke and Huygens not producing a successful clock that worked at sea?

4. What was Humphrey Ditton's suggestion for determining longitude?

5. Describe John Harrison's family.

6. What did the Longitude Act establish?

7. What two advances did Thacker's chronometer make? Why did it still not work?

8. What is the main difference, as identified in Chapter 1, between latitude and longitude?

9. What were the problems with William Whiston's proposal for determining longitude?

10. In Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time, what happened to Sir Clowdisley's voyage?

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