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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:

2. How was John Harrison educated?

3. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?

4. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?

5. Where did Harrison go to present his case to the Board of Longitude?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the main problem with the "lunar-distance" method?

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

3. Describe the legend of how Galileo came up with the idea of the pendulum clock.

4. Why did changes in temperature affect early clocks?

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

6. What was the problem with measuring the speed of light? How was it solved?

7. Describe John Harrison.

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

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

10. What did the Longitude Act establish?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In an essay, analyze what genre Longitude is. What evidence from the text supports your opinion? Is it only one genre or a combination?

Essay Topic 2

When the Board of Longitude established a large monetary prize, many inventors came forward with ideas on how to solve the problem. In an essay, analyze whether or not the monetary award associated with the longitude prize helped to spur ideas for solving longitude or created a setback in time wasted having to consider crackpot schemes.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing each of Harrison's clocks. What were the advancements of each one? How long did they take to build? Which ones were shrouded in controversy? Which one was closest to winning the prize?

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