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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: King of the Vagabonds, pages 337-390.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Newton experimenting with when Daniel came to him?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Light and colors.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Star alignments.

2. What kind of language did Wilkins want to create?
(a) Secret.
(b) Alchemist.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Religious.

3. What does Van Hoek do with the men he captures who attacked the Minerva?
(a) Tortures them.
(b) Hires them.
(c) Gets their names.
(d) Kills them.

4. Who is the leading dissenter when Declaration for Freedom of Conscience of all Dissenters is signed?
(a) Bulstrood.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Waterhouse.
(d) Daniel.

5. Who did experiments with gunpowder?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Hooke.
(c) Newton.
(d) Wilkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the book set at the beginning?

2. What caused Cambridge to be closed in 1665?

3. Whom does Wilkins ask to carry on his work?

4. What is the name of Daniel's father?

5. How does Jeffreys think Daniel wants England to be run?

(see the answer key)

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