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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Arnold and Earnshaw fight over?
(a) The inventor of the pocketwatch.
(b) A patent over a spring innovation.
(c) The viability of the lunar method.
(d) A pendulum part.

2. How much did Harrison receive to complete H-4 after the initial tests?
(a) 15,000 pounds.
(b) 1,500 pounds.
(c) 500 pounds.
(d) 25,000 pounds.

3. By the mid-nineteenth century, what was the accepted way to navigate longitude?
(a) Use of clocks.
(b) GPS.
(c) There was still no solution to longitude.
(d) The lunar method.

4. Which of Harrison's clocks continue to function to this day?
(a) Only H-4.
(b) H-1, H-2, H-3, and H-4.
(c) H-1 and H-2.
(d) H-3 and H-4.

5. How would you describe Nevil Maskelyne?
(a) A patriot.
(b) A villian.
(c) A scientist.
(d) Lucky.

6. Why was Maskelyne against Harrison?
(a) Maskelyne was jealous of the support Harrison was getting from the Board of Longitude.
(b) Maskelyne disliked Harrison's family.
(c) Maskelyne wanted to use his lunar-distance method to solve the problem of longitude.
(d) Maskelyne was supportive of Harrison but didn't believe his clocks would work.

7. Who was hired to copy the H-4?
(a) Larcum Kendall.
(b) John Jeffreys.
(c) George III.
(d) Captain Cook.

8. How did John Arnold make so many watches at such an economical price?
(a) He outsourced the watch making to India.
(b) He used copper instead of iron.
(c) He used cheap labor to do the easy tasks, saving the hard ones for himeslf.
(d) He used plastic parts instead of metal ones.

9. What did Harrison claim was wrong with Maskelyne's test of the H-4.
(a) Harrison used an incorrect testing method.
(b) It was placed in the basement, keeping the gears too cold to work correctly.
(c) It was dropped repeatedly in transport.
(d) It was placed in direct sunlight, superheating the watch mechanisms under the glass.

10. How many working parts does the H-3 have?
(a) 962.
(b) 675.
(c) 753.
(d) 453.

11. How accurate was Arnold's pocket watch that was tested by Maskelyne?
(a) Perfectly accurate, not losing any time.
(b) Accurate within four minutes over six months.
(c) Accurate within three seconds over a year.
(d) Accurate within thirty seconds over four weeks.

12. What happened to clockmaking after Harrison's death?
(a) Clockmaking stalled.
(b) Clockmaking reversed in advancement.
(c) Clockmaking boomed.
(d) Clockmaking halted.

13. What did Edmund Halley successfully predict?
(a) Celestial movements.
(b) The winner of the longitude prize.
(c) The navigational currents of the Atlantic.
(d) The accuracy of a clock.

14. Who aided Harrison in building the H-3?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His father.
(c) No one. He did it entirely on his own.
(d) His son.

15. The Board of Longitude demanded Harrison hand over the H-4 so it could be used by whom?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Navy.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Marines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people were not members of the Board of Longitude?

2. Which clock did Harrison become dissatisfied with and never made to sea?

3. How long did it take Harrison to build and test the H-5?

4. What kind of solution to the longitude problem did the Board of Longitude originally desire?

5. Which clock was Harrison's greatest triumph?

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