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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. What kind of mines does Jack buy shares in?
(a) Gold.
(b) Copper.
(c) Coal.
(d) Silver.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the book set at the beginning?

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

4. What did Daniel discuss with Newton on the way to the fair?

5. What area did Wilkins make bad decisions in before his death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does the Earl of Epsom bring Daniel?

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

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

4. What does Drake think of the London fire?

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

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

7. What does Daniel say about England and war?

8. What happens to Jack after his visit to Backboden?

9. How does this book begin?

10. What does Eliza hope to sell at a fair?

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