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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 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.
(a) Black / Coulomb.
(b) Black / Wilcke.
(c) Galvani / Volta.
(d) Wilcke / Robison.

2. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Pierre Bayle.
(b) L'Hopital.
(c) Varignon.
(d) Kant.

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.
(a) American plumber.
(b) German psychologist.
(c) Polish priest.
(d) French electrician.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Carnot.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Descartes.

5. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) Abbe Nollet.
(b) Robert Symmer.
(c) William Gilbert.
(d) John Cuthbertson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The influx of German texts coincided with the revival of French chemistry under ________, who began his famous chemical lectures at the Jardin de Roi in 1742.

2. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?

3. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

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

5. 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"?

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