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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) Fixed sum.
(b) Tax lawyer.
(c) Tax farm.
(d) Personal tax assistant.

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

3. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) Kant.
(b) John Locke.
(c) D' Alembert.
(d) Aristotle.

4. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.
(a) Abbe Nollet.
(b) William Gilbert.
(c) John Cuthbertson.
(d) Francis Hauksbee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

2. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.

4. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. All of the following were the leading chemists and medical doctors, according to the beginning of Chapter 4, except for whom?

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