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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The moon travels a distance roughly equal to its own width every _________.
(a) Day.
(b) Second.
(c) Minute.
(d) 30 minutes.

2. What was one of Harrison's innovations?
(a) A vacuum that held out temperature changes.
(b) A new clock face that revolutionized the way we tell time.
(c) Gears that could last for extended periods at sea.
(d) A brass and steel pendulum that aided in keeping time despite temperature changes.

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

4. How is the fog described at the beginning of Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time?
(a) "London fog."
(b) "Smokestacks.:
(c) "Dirty weather."
(d) "Pea soup."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What could have avoided the tragedy near the Scilly Islands?

2. What toy does the narrator play with at the beginning of Chapter 1: Imaginary Lines?

3. How accurate was the solution to longitude to be?

4. In the Whiston-Ditton proposal, what did they hope to be exempt from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Galileo's longitude solution?

2. What two advances did Thacker's chronometer make? Why did it still not work?

3. Describe John Harrison.

4. What was Humphrey Ditton's suggestion for determining longitude?

5. What were the economic consequences of not knowing longitude?

6. What is the main difference, as identified in Chapter 1, between latitude and longitude?

7. In Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time, what happened to Sir Clowdisley's voyage?

8. In Harrison's early clockmaking years, what was his goal?

9. Why was it unusual that John Harrison became an accomplished clockmaker?

10. Describe John Harrison's family.

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