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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. Which group is the Queen showing favor toward in Chapter 13?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Tories.
(c) The Clubb.
(d) The Jacobites.

2. What is Eliza skeptical about regarding the logic mill?
(a) Who will operate it.
(b) Why it is so big.
(c) When it will be finished.
(d) How it will benefit others.

3. What proof does Roger provide to Bolingbroke indicating that Jack has been captured?
(a) A haubite.
(b) A pithina.
(c) A gold guinea.
(d) A telescope.

4. What object is concealed and transported to the Tower of London?
(a) A rope ladder.
(b) A rocket.
(c) A cannon.
(d) A clock.

5. Where does Daniel witness Mr. White being beaten?
(a) A bearbaiting ring.
(b) The stables.
(c) The town square.
(d) At Sir Isaac's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jack, Daniel, and Sir Isaac negotiate?

2. What is the profession of Sir Isaac's nemesis?

3. What happens to Lt. Throwley, the Yeoman guard from the Tower of London?

4. Traces of what unusual substance are found at the shipyard?

5. Where does the Clubb meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dappa willingly allow himself to be apprehended?

2. Detail some of the characters' actions and thinking in Book 6, Chapters 21-24 that leads them to make a mistake.

3. How does the attempt on the characters' lives emphasize the other elements of the plot at this point in the book?

4. Analyze the reasons different characters are paired up in this section of the book.

5. What does Daniel deduce as Jack's motivation for his conduct, and why is Eliza unimpressed with Daniel's deduction?

6. Describe the elaborate plan and series of events that Jack Shaftoe and Edouard De Gex put into motion in Chapter 20.

7. What are some striking examples of how Daniel's world operates under different rules and thinking than life today?

8. What are the different motives of Ravenscar and Bolingbroke at the dinner party? Who ends up triumphant at the end of the evening, and why?

9. What does Eliza try to do at the Opera House? Does she succeed? What does she learn?

10. What is the state of the English economy and coinage, according to Sir Isaac Newton, when Daniel comes to visit him?

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