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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Jack led to a cart before he hangs?
(a) To change his clothes.
(b) To parade him through the streets.
(c) To drag him through the streets.
(d) To hold his possessions.

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

3. Who owns the property being used to process phosphorous?
(a) Threader.
(b) Bolingbroke.
(c) Sir Isaac.
(d) Jack Shaftoe.

4. Who delivers Jack's expensive suit?
(a) The mysterious veiled woman.
(b) Daniel.
(c) The mysterious blond man.
(d) Bob Shaftoe.

5. What do Daniel and Threader cast a new gold guinea out of?
(a) Threader's gold ring.
(b) Daniel's gold buttons.
(c) Sir Isaac's gold buttons.
(d) Daniel's gold ring.

6. What does Jack believe he's found under the stress of torture?
(a) God.
(b) Satan.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Power.

7. What do the Earl of Lostwihiel and his deputy collect for the trial?
(a) Haubites.
(b) Phosphorus.
(c) The Pyx.
(d) Confessions.

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

9. White is arrested upon whose authority?
(a) The Lord Chancellor of Westminster Abbey.
(b) The Lord Chancellor of the House of Lords.
(c) The Lord Chancellor of the Royal Society.
(d) The Lord Chancellor of the House of Lords.

10. Who tells Daniel that many men aboard the Minerva perceive him as bad luck?
(a) Sir Isaac.
(b) Dappa.
(c) Otto Van Hoek.
(d) Johann.

11. What does White spread rumors about?
(a) Roger's involvement with a second mint.
(b) Jack's involvement with a second mint.
(c) Daniel's involvement with a second mint.
(d) Sir Isaac's involvement with a second mint.

12. What is the name of Danny and Jimmy's friend in Carolina?
(a) Reeba.
(b) Mateo.
(c) Zorro.
(d) Toomba.

13. What do Daniel, the Earl of Lostwihiel, Saturn, Orney and Newcomen inspect and find to be working well?
(a) The clockwork volcano.
(b) The House of Lords.
(c) The steam engine.
(d) The Kit-Cat Clubb.

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

15. How many goldsmiths are sworn in at the trial?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack do as he is led through the streets of London?

2. How does Jack reward the people who have congregated in his honor?

3. In Sir Isaac's plan, where is the hidden man supposed to be?

4. What happens after the proceedings begin at the trial of the Pyx?

5. Who does NOT reside at Blenheim Palace, according to the Epilogue?

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