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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jack reward the people who have congregated in his honor?
(a) He says a prayer for them.
(b) He buys them food and wine.
(c) He professes his love to them.
(d) He throws his possessions to them.

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

3. What gives Daniel power over Sir Isaac in Chapter 24?
(a) Knowing the whereabouts of the Solomonic gold.
(b) Knowing the whereabouts of White.
(c) Knowing the whereabouts of the steam engine.
(d) Knowing the whereabouts of Dappa.

4. What signifies that the gold is pure?
(a) Its molten texture.
(b) Its weight of 10 ounces.
(c) Its molten color.
(d) Its weight of 12 ounces.

5. Where does Sir Isaac instruct Catherine Barton to take him, whether he is alive or dead?
(a) The trial of the Pyx.
(b) Jack Shaftoe's hanging.
(c) The Kit-Cat Clubb.
(d) Westminster Abbey.

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

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

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

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

10. What did Eliza once ask Jack to choose?
(a) Her hand in marriage.
(b) A token of her love.
(c) A lifestyle that was befitting.
(d) A mansion that was foreboding.

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

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

13. 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 House of Lords.
(d) The Lord Chancellor of the Royal Society.

14. Who does Sir Isaac tell White has accused him of high treason?
(a) Edouard De Gex.
(b) Jack Shaftoe.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Bob Shaftoe.

15. Why does Sir Isaac no longer have the proof he needs?
(a) White has died without a confession.
(b) Jack has died without a confession.
(c) Daniel has died without a confession.
(d) Dappa has died without a confession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is marked on the buttons of Jack's suit?

2. How long has Jack been telling tales of conspiracy to his visitor?

3. How many locks are on the vault at Westminster Abbey?

4. Who currently governs the Tower of London?

5. What happens to Dappa after the duel?

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