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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?
(a) Cycloid.
(b) Involute.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Isoperimeters.
2. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Electricity / heat.
(b) Electricity / water.
(c) Heat / air.
(d) Water / air.
3. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Newton.
(b) Black.
(c) Fordyce.
(d) Roebuck.
4. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Christians.
(c) Buddist.
(d) Jesuits.
5. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Euler.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Newton.
Short Answer Questions
1. Chapter 5 states that the property of "irritability" had first been recognized by ________, who used it to explain why the gall bladder does not discharge bile into the intestines constantly but only when bile is needed.
2. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
3. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
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