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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 18th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 19th.

2. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Leonhard Euler.
(d) Newton.

3. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Aristotlian.
(b) Platoian.
(c) Voltairian.
(d) Newtonian.

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?
(a) Locke.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Newton.

5. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Locke.
(d) Musschenbroek.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

2. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?

3. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.

4. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.

5. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

(see the answer key)

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