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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eliza disguise herself in when she ran away with Jack?

2. What does Daniel nearly swallow when he sees Enoch?

3. What is the Minerva attacked by?

4. What did Daniel see a play about at Cambridge?

5. What did Daniel help Wilkins do while Cambridge was closed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daniel meet Leibniz?

2. How does the doctor help Jack?

3. How does this book begin?

4. Why is the Minerva attacked?

5. How did Jack meet Eliza?

6. What did the Duke of York want to talk to Daniel about?

7. Why does Daniel make a hole in a roof?

8. What did Newton build on a wall in Cambridge?

9. How does Daniel meet Tess?

10. Why did Daniel think he got the best education possible at Cambridge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The separation of classes is quite a significant theme in this book. What are these classes, and how does this separation affect the characters belonging to them?

Essay Topic 2

Stephenson presents the idea that there are two sides to every man. Choose three of the characters from the book and write about their dual natures and how this duality affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 3

Maturity is a theme presented in a number of places in this plot, and is manifested in a number of different ways. Choose a few of these instances and compare and contrast them. How are they different in their manifestations of this sensitive theme?

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