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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Mied mathematics.
(b) Natural theology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Psychology.

2. In 1819, who gave a clue to the source of this pessimism when he wrote that "the power of our analysis is practically exhausted"?
(a) Isaac Barrow.
(b) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(c) Diderot.
(d) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

3. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Deism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Academism.

4. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.
(a) William Gilbert.
(b) Francis Hauksbee.
(c) John Cuthbertson.
(d) Abbe Nollet.

5. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Macquer.
(c) Black.
(d) Bayen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

2. Who was the most important German chemist, whose papers in the "Memoires" of the Berlin Academy, during the 1740s and 1750s, earned the admiration of the French chemists?

3. The narrator explains that the most important elements for the Chemical Revolution were ________ and ________.

4. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?

5. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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