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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Jack note at the reading of his last rights?
(a) Enoch.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Satan.

2. What does the executioner no longer feel obligated to do?
(a) Ensure that Jack gets drawn and quartered.
(b) Ensure that Jack is dead.
(c) Ensure that Jack has found God.
(d) Ensure that Jack's death is swift.

3. What does Ravenscar announce he is doing as a regent?
(a) Calling for a trial of the Pyx.
(b) Challenging the Hanoverian succession.
(c) Firing Sir Isaac as master of the mint.
(d) Searching for the phosphorus maker.

4. What is marked on the buttons of Jack's suit?
(a) Religious symbols.
(b) Alchemic symbols.
(c) His initials.
(d) Numbers.

5. What ailment does Sir Isaac suffer from?
(a) Goal fever.
(b) Hay fever.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Syphilis.

6. What happens to the melted gold before it is weighed to test its quality?
(a) It bursts into flames.
(b) It is allowed to cool.
(c) It is heated again.
(d) It is dropped on the floor.

7. What is Daniel careful NOT to show signs of?
(a) Love or adoration.
(b) Fatigue or stress.
(c) Anger or violence.
(d) Hope or optimism.

8. What does the executioner place over Jack's head?
(a) A crown of thorns.
(b) A crown of gold.
(c) A white hood.
(d) A black hood.

9. When is White arrested?
(a) Before the Queen's death.
(b) After the King's coronation.
(c) Before Jack's sons escape.
(d) After the trial of the Pyx.

10. What does Threader do with the first sample from the Pyx before the goldsmiths begin their analysis?
(a) He hides it.
(b) He drops it.
(c) He weighs it.
(d) He melts it.

11. Where does Jack tell the public he is going in the morning to hang?
(a) Shive Tor.
(b) Westminster Abbey.
(c) Tyburn.
(d) Hockley-in-the-Hole.

12. What happens after the proceedings begin at the trial of the Pyx?
(a) The Queen's Army is summoned.
(b) Daniel is summoned.
(c) The royal goldsmiths are summoned.
(d) Sir Isaac is summoned.

13. Who does Daniel decide to write to at the end?
(a) Sir Isaac.
(b) Caroline.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Leibniz.

14. What does the Clubb use to pinpoint the location they are looking for?
(a) The number of wheel rotations counted.
(b) The number of people in town.
(c) The number of wheels on a cart.
(d) The number of houses they pass.

15. What does Johann beg Leibniz NOT to continue?
(a) The calculus feud.
(b) The logic mill project.
(c) Talking to the tsar.
(d) The steam engine project.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Daniel feels obligated to protect Sir Isaac?

2. What is significant about the trial date for the Pyx?

3. What does Daniel discover about Sir Isaac in his sedan chair?

4. Where does Daniel take the Shaftoe boys before he puts them aboard a boat for Carolina?

5. What does Jack remind the executioner about?

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