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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: The Diamond Timekeeper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Huygen's published argument state?
(a) Jupiters moons were really rings.
(b) A clock could establish longitude at sea.
(c) Longitude could be determined by the moon.
(d) A map with correct currents was necessary to navigate at sea.

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

3. The placement of the prime meridian was a ____________ decision.
(a) Historical.
(b) Social.
(c) Economic.
(d) Political.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 6: The Prize, how had Newton changed his thinking about the longitude problem?

3. Harrison was an avid ___________.

4. Who explained the moons of Jupiter with the velocity of light?

5. What was Flamsteed's reaction to his maps being seized?

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