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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. By the mid-nineteenth century, what was the accepted way to navigate longitude?
2. What happened to clockmaking after Harrison's death?
3. What was different between H-4 and H-5?
4. What was Nevil Maskelyne known as?
5. Why did Maskelyne think Harrison shouldn't win the longitude prize?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Harrison's relationship with the Board of Longitude.
2. Explain the title of Chapter 10: The Diamond Timekeeper.
3. Explain the developments in finding an astronomical solution outlined in Chapter 9: Hands on Heaven's Clock.
4. What effect did Harrison's success have on the Longitude Act and the Board of Longitude?
5. What role did the astronomers elitism play in the quest for solving the longitude problem?
6. What struggles did astronomers go through in attempting to solve the problem of longitude?
7. What advances did the H-3 make?
8. What was Harrison's ultimate vindication?
9. What did the Board of Longitude hire Larcum Kendall to do?
10. What happened to clockmaking after Harrison's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dava Sobel had a keen interest in the longitude problem. In an essay, what do you know about Sobel as an author? What was her purpose in writing Longitude?
Essay Topic 2
Place the longitude problem in its historical context Include the following: social, political, cultural, religious, and economic factors.
Essay Topic 3
By entitling her book, Longitude: The True Story of the Lone Genius that Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, Sobel seems to have a clear bias in her understanding of the history she portrays in her book. Using specific examples from the book, write an essay demonstrating ways in which Sobel's portrayal of history is biased towards Harrison.
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