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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Daniel make the hole at a college for?
(a) Hooke.
(b) Bell.
(c) Wilkins.
(d) Newton.

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

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

5. Why is Oldenburg arrested?
(a) Foreign correspondance.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Treason.
(d) Larceny.

6. How did the Duke of York find out about Hooke's experiments with dogs?
(a) Rumors spread to him.
(b) He saw it through a window.
(c) He heard a dog scream.
(d) Hooke wrote to him about it.

7. What did Daniel help Wilkins do while Cambridge was closed?
(a) All of these.
(b) Bring in the crops.
(c) Do experiments.
(d) Write a book.

8. What was Bob and Jack's second job?
(a) Making hangings shorter.
(b) Helping prisoners escape.
(c) Feeding prisoners.
(d) Picking pockets.

9. What did Daniel see a play about at Cambridge?
(a) Courtly intrigue.
(b) King Henry VIII's life.
(c) Politicians who are corrupted.
(d) The war.

10. What does Daniel retrieve for Newton during the play?
(a) A hat.
(b) A drink.
(c) Some notes.
(d) His book.

11. What was Eliza doing when she was abducted?
(a) Singing with her mother.
(b) Learning to read.
(c) Walking on the beach.
(d) Burying her father.

12. What does Jack dress up as when they go to Leipzig?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A nobleman.
(c) A professor.
(d) A bodyguard.

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

14. Who was being executed in the camp that Jack ended up in after chasing a bird?
(a) Prisoners of war.
(b) A harem.
(c) Escaped convicts.
(d) Black servants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did homeless people go to stay warm?

2. What does Van Hoek do with the men he captures who attacked the Minerva?

3. Who talks Jack into buying shares in a mine?

4. What did Daniel's father own?

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

(see the answer keys)

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