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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease afflicted many sailors at sea for long periods of time?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Scurvy.
(d) Hepatitis.

2. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?
(a) Half.
(b) 500.
(c) One quarter.
(d) All but two.

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

4. What could have avoided the tragedy near the Scilly Islands?
(a) If the rudder on the ship hadn't been broken, the captain could have steered away from the islands.
(b) If the stars had been out so the captains could utilize them for navigation.
(c) If the lead ship had followed the directions of the admiral.
(d) If the admiral had listened to a sailor who kept his own navigation.

5. What was wrong with the watch built within a vacuum?
(a) It lost accuracy due to temperature.
(b) The pendulum wasn't able to swing freely because of the vacuum.
(c) It was too large to take to sea.
(d) It was too expensive for the common sailor.

6. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?
(a) Thomas Blundeville.
(b) Vincenzio.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Christian Huygens.

7. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.
(b) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.
(c) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(d) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.

8. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?
(a) Made the ship arrive three weeks ahead of schedule.
(b) Kept good track of the ship's longitude.
(c) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.
(d) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.

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

10. Who was in command of the ships that ran into the Scilly Islands near England?
(a) Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell.
(b) John Harrison.
(c) Samuel Pepys.
(d) Commodore George Anson.

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

12. In order for Ditton's and Whiston's plan to determine longitude to work, what would have to be done?
(a) Ship captains would need to go to "Longitude School."
(b) New discoveries in compasses would need to be made.
(c) A fleet of ships would need to be anchored at 600-mile intervals in the ocean.
(d) Accurate clocks would need to be on all ships.

13. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Madre de Deus.
(c) Romney.
(d) Centurion.

14. Complete this analogy from Chapter 4:Time in a Bottle: Time is to clock as mind is to ____________.
(a) Stars.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Brain.
(d) Head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did King Louis build in Paris?

2. How long did Harrison work before receiving his monetary reward?

3. What year was Harrison born?

4. Who helped Harrison build a clock that never lost more than a second per month?

5. What did the Longitude Act of 1714 establish?

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