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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what is the name of the group of financiers who obtained from the French government the right to collect taxes?
(a) Personal tax assistant.
(b) Tax farm.
(c) Tax lawyer.
(d) Fixed sum.

2. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Botany.
(b) Mixed mathematics.
(c) Geology.
(d) Meteorology.

3. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Nicolas Malebranche.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) Newton.

4. 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) Natural theology.
(b) Mied mathematics.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Physiology.

5. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Microscope.
(b) Forceps.
(c) Filter.
(d) Vacuum pump.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?

2. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

4. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?

5. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?

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