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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Princess Caroline wants Daniel's help with _____________.
(a) Finding her husband.
(b) Building a college.
(c) Reuniting two researches.
(d) Teaching her children.

2. Why is the woman being hanged at the beginning of the book?
(a) She is a witch.
(b) She didn't pay her taxes.
(c) She cheated on her husband.
(d) She is a thief.

3. How did Daniel meet Tess?
(a) She was related to Newton.
(b) She sat next to him at the play.
(c) She asked about the hole.
(d) She was in the play.

4. What did Daniel study in school?
(a) Religion.
(b) Natural Philosophy.
(c) Politics.
(d) Chemistry.

5. Who talks Jack into buying shares in a mine?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Bob.
(c) Miners.
(d) Eliza.

6. Who sent Dick, Bob and Jack to get work?
(a) Their father.
(b) Their mistress.
(c) Their aunt.
(d) Their mother.

7. What does Jack name the horse he steals?
(a) Turk.
(b) Turner.
(c) Talmage.
(d) Talon.

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

9. What did Daniel say he learned most from at college?
(a) Drunken conversations.
(b) Newton's ramblings.
(c) The Bible.
(d) His experiments.

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

11. What was the hole Daniel made used for?
(a) A telescope.
(b) A view point.
(c) A tracking system.
(d) A sky light.

12. Whom does Wilkins ask to carry on his work?
(a) Hooke.
(b) Comstock.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Leibneiz.

13. What is van Hoek's occupation?
(a) Inn keeper.
(b) Black smith.
(c) Politician.
(d) Sailor.

14. What was thought to be a cure for Syphilis?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Ticks.
(c) Clean blood.
(d) Fleas.

15. What is the Minerva attacked by?
(a) Highwaymen.
(b) Pirates.
(c) Indians.
(d) Robbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Daniel rarely do at college after meeting Newton?

2. Where does Daniel run when Wilkins's death is discussed?

3. When did Jack meet Churchill?

4. What does Daniel use to escape Blackbeard?

5. Who did experiments with gunpowder?

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