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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Powder of Sympathy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?
(a) The lunar method as the government's way to calculate longitude.
(b) A monetary prize for solving the problem of longitude.
(c) A uniform way to calculate longitude.
(d) Taxes on the use of maps with longitude.

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

3. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?
(a) Smith's map.
(b) A compass.
(c) Medication to ward off scurvy.
(d) Harrison's clock.

4. Where was the destination the Centurion was sailing for?
(a) Cape Noir.
(b) Scilly Islands.
(c) Tierra del Feugo.
(d) Juan Fernandez Island.

5. Who explained the moons of Jupiter with the velocity of light?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Tycho Brahe.
(c) Cassini.
(d) Ole Roemer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came up with a way to draw longitude meridians on the night sky?

2. What was one disadvantage to using the magnetic variation method to determine longitude?

3. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?

4. In the earliest lines of latitude, what marked the zero-degree line?

5. When was the magnetic compass invented?

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