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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Quicksilver, pages 279-335.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What test did Daniel have to pass to avoid being kicked out of college?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Milton.

2. Who takes Enoch to the ferry?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Ben Franklin.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Daniel Waterhouse.

3. What area did Wilkins make bad decisions in before his death?
(a) Science.
(b) Literature.
(c) Politics.
(d) Society.

4. Who wants to autopsy Wilkins?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Newton.
(d) Comstock.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Minerva attacked by?

2. Why did Daniel not seek vengeance for the boy who committed the stabbing at college?

3. Why did Daniel see a boy stabbed at college?

4. Who is the leading dissenter when Declaration for Freedom of Conscience of all Dissenters is signed?

5. Why is Oldenburg arrested?

(see the answer key)

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