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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Prize.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thirty miles is how many degrees of longitude?
(a) Ten degrees.
(b) Half a degree.
(c) Five degrees.
(d) Eight degrees.

2. Who developed the "lunar distance method" to longitude?
(a) Ole Roemer.
(b) John Flamsteed.
(c) Johannes Werner.
(d) Admiral Shovell.

3. What could the powder of sympathy reportedly do?
(a) Make one immortal.
(b) Point north when mixed with water.
(c) Heal at a distance.
(d) Cure scurvy.

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

5. What is the main point of Chapter 6: The Prize?
(a) Award a prize of land for an article published about latitude.
(b) Determine the winner of the longitude prize.
(c) Explain the goal of the people in the book: win the prize by solving the problem of longitude.
(d) Explain the clock based approach to longitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the magnetic compass invented?

2. What did Huygen's published argument state?

3. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?

4. What does the term "dead reckoning" refer to?

5. What is the main difference in measuring longitude and latitude?

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