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

2. 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) Hooke wrote to him about it.
(d) He heard a dog scream.

3. What did Daniel's father own?
(a) An inn.
(b) A lake.
(c) A boat.
(d) A farm.

4. How long did it take Daniel to make the hole at a college?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 1 month,
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Oldenburg arrested?

3. What is the Minerva attacked by?

4. Why does Daniel wait at the Square on London Bridge?

5. What was Eliza's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daniel describe the beginning of his friendship with Newton?

2. What happens when Trinity re-opens after the first closure?

3. What does Boyle say after Wilkins's death that upsets Daniel?

4. How does Daniel help Van Hoek in Cape Cod Bay?

5. What did the Duke of York want to talk to Daniel about?

6. What does Oldenburg tell Daniel while he is in prison?

7. How does this book begin?

8. How does the doctor help Jack?

9. How is Leibniz's mine different from other mines?

10. What job did Jack have at the prison?

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