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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) 500.
(b) One quarter.
(c) Half.
(d) All but two.

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?
(a) Speed of the boat.
(b) Wind.
(c) Temperature.
(d) Rocking of the boat.

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

4. What role did the Board of Longitude play?
(a) Bring an international committee to review the longitude problem.
(b) Provided funding for research to solve the longitude problem.
(c) Test the various proposals to the solution to longitude.
(d) Unite angered seamen around the longitude prolem.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The difference between longitude and latitude is that latitude lines _____________ each other.

2. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.

3. What did Huygens and Hooke fight over?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1530, Flemish astronomer Gemma Frisiusm wrote that the clocks of his day "provided no problem to those who traveled." In reality, what were the problems with clocks of his day for travel?

2. Who were the early players in the longitude prize described in Chapter 6: The Prize. What role did they play?

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

4. Why did changes in temperature affect early clocks?

5. Explain the title of Chapter 5: Powder of Sympathy.

6. Describe John Harrison's family.

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

8. Describe John Harrison.

9. What did Huygens patent in 1675.

10. Compare Newton's thoughts about the solution of the longitude problem at the beginning of Chapter 6: The Prize to his thoughts at the end of the chapter.

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