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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. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?
(a) Neither.
(b) Hugyens.
(c) Hooke.
(d) Both.

2. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:
(a) Produce a clock that worked at sea.
(b) Get the Royal Society to declare a winner.
(c) Collaborate on a working clock.
(d) Collect on the monetary prize offered for solving the problem of longitude.

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

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

5. How long did Harrison work before receiving his monetary reward?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 50 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:

2. How many sailors died near the Scilly Islands?

3. What was wrong with the watch built within a vacuum?

4. Who built a watch within a vacuum that could tell stable time?

5. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?

(see the answer key)

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