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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is to happen to Jack after he is hung by the neck?
(a) His body will be thrown in the River Thames.
(b) He will be drawn and quartered until he dies.
(c) He will be pressed under a 300-pound weight.
(d) He will be pardoned by the House of Lords.

2. What is the tap room?
(a) A bathroom inside the prison.
(b) A torture chamber inside the prison.
(c) A tavern inside the prison.
(d) A kitchen inside the prison.

3. Who does the blond man accompany in church?
(a) Jack.
(b) The priest.
(c) Caroline.
(d) A veiled woman.

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

5. What is NOT one of the tasks Daniel must do without Ravenscar?
(a) Decide the fate of the Institute of Technological Arts.
(b) Execute Jack Shaftoe.
(c) Conclude work on the logic mill.
(d) Arrange the trial of the Pyx.

6. What do the Clubb members find along with a counterfeiting die?
(a) A new King George guinea.
(b) A new Jack Shaftoe guinea.
(c) A new Queen Anne guinea.
(d) A new Princess Caroline guinea.

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

8. What happens when the gold guinea samples are melted?
(a) The base metal and pure gold change colors.
(b) The base metal and pure gold fuse together.
(c) The base metal and pure gold separate.
(d) The base metal and pure gold catch on fire.

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

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

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

12. What is the gold smuggled to the shipping docks disguised as?
(a) A box of coal.
(b) Natural philosophy tools.
(c) Salted fish for Leibniz.
(d) Fresh fish for Sir Isaac.

13. Who tells Jack that he is considered the King of Vagabonds?
(a) A young boy.
(b) White.
(c) A blind man.
(d) Sir Isaac.

14. What does Daniel discover about Sir Isaac in his sedan chair?
(a) He has a gun.
(b) He has died.
(c) He has no clothes.
(d) He has a bomb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Princess Caroline instruct Sir Isaac and Leibniz to reconcile their differences?

2. Who does Sir Isaac tell White has accused him of high treason?

3. Why does Sir Isaac no longer have the proof he needs?

4. Who does Catherine Barton say Sir Isaac needs to act as his voice?

5. What signifies that the gold is pure?

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