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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. What kind of solution to the longitude problem did the Board of Longitude originally desire?
(a) A map based one.
(b) A telescope based one.
(c) A clock based one.
(d) An astronomical one.

2. How long would Nevil Maskelyne test the H-4 at the Royal Observatory?
(a) Ten months.
(b) One year.
(c) Six months.
(d) Two months.

3. How long did Harrison spend building H-3?
(a) Five years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Twenty years.

4. Why did Harrison take so long to build the H-3?
(a) He repeatedly ran out of money.
(b) It is unknown.
(c) The design faltered during a sea test and he had to start over.
(d) His design was ransacked midway through completion.

5. Why was Maskelyne against Harrison?
(a) Maskelyne was jealous of the support Harrison was getting from the Board of Longitude.
(b) Maskelyne was supportive of Harrison but didn't believe his clocks would work.
(c) Maskelyne disliked Harrison's family.
(d) Maskelyne wanted to use his lunar-distance method to solve the problem of longitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tobias Mayer was a ____________.

2. Who awarded Harrison the remainder of the prize money?

3. How did astronomers feel about Harrison's clock idea for solving the problem of longitude?

4. Maskelyne eventually concluded that the lunar distance method had problems. When would the lunar-distance method not work?

5. What did Harrison need to do to prove the H-4 worked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the title of Chapter 10: The Diamond Timekeeper.

2. What advances did the H-3 make?

3. Why was the Board of Longitude biased against Harrison?

4. Explain the title of Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Portraits.

5. What happened when Harrison presented H-1 to the Board of Longitude?

6. Why was Maskelyne threatened by Harrison?

7. What did the Board of Longitude hire Larcum Kendall to do?

8. Why didn't the H-4 win the Longitude Prize?

9. What happened to clockmaking after Harrison's death?

10. What happened when H-3 and H-4 were tested at sea?

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