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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Calculus.

2. The narrator reveals that Lavoisier heated water gently for ________days in a "pelican," an apparatus for constant distillation in which the water evaporates, then condenses, and finally runs back to be evaporated again.
(a) 30.
(b) 101.
(c) 365.
(d) 90.

3. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.
(a) Air.
(b) Natural fire.
(c) Electrical fire.
(d) Water.

4. According to Chapter 4, what is another name for nitrous oxide?
(a) Laughing gas.
(b) Shocking gas.
(c) Blinding gas.
(d) Tear gas.

5. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Desagulier.

Short Answer Questions

1. In February 1744, ________, master apothecary to the French Army, published an article on the red precipitate of mercury "per se" in "Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle, et sur les arts."

2. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

4. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

(see the answer key)

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