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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. How much did the Board of Longitude award both Earnshaw and Arnold?

2. The main problem with the lunar method was that it took a great deal of ________________.

3. Tobias Mayer was a ____________.

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

5. Who was to test H-3 and H-4 at sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did Harrison's success have on the Longitude Act and the Board of Longitude?

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

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

4. In Chapter 11: Trial by Fire and Water, who is the villain introduced? Why was he at odds with Harrison?

5. What was Harrison's primary motivation for winning the longitude prize?

6. What happened when King George III took an interest in Harrison's clocks?

7. According to the Royal Academy of Astronomers, why was Harrison not "worthy" to solve the problem of longitude?

8. Describe the progression of Harrison's clocks in Chapter 8: The Grasshopper Goes to Sea.

9. Why was Maskelyne threatened by Harrison?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Royal Astronomers were determined that the answer to the longitude problem resided in the heavens. Why wouldn't the astronomer's consider an alternative solution to the longitude problem, such as Harrison's clock solution?

Essay Topic 2

We learn in Longitude the struggles that astronomers had gone through in developing a solution to the longitude problem and they would not allow all their work to be shown unnecessary. Sobel is able to come to allow the reader to come to this conclusion through the use of objective and subjective details. According to the Royal Academy of Astronomers, why was Harrison not "worthy" to solve the problem of longitude? How do you know this? Through objective or subjective details?

Essay Topic 3

What was the Longitude Act of 1714? What factors led to its creation? Do you think the Longitude Act spurred the quest for the solution to the longitude problem?

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