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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, the narrator reveals that Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was a famous French ________.
(a) Public servant.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Chemist.
(d) Physicist.

2. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
(a) Black.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Newton.
(d) Lavoisier.

3. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Physics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Mechanics.

4. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Brachistachrone.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Catenary.
(d) Involute.

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."
(a) Centripetal curve.
(b) Pentagon curve.
(c) Polygon curve.
(d) Diagonal curve.

Short Answer Questions

1. Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish continued to use the term ________ for the action of fire in combustion, in Chapter 4.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 4, who was the most successful searcher for "airs"?

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

4. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.

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

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