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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Diderot.
(d) Maupertuis.
2. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
(a) Buddist.
(b) Christians.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Jesuits.
3. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?
(a) Robert Boyle.
(b) Roger Cortes.
(c) Henry Oldenburg.
(d) James Butler.
4. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Lemonlime / electrical heat.
(b) Boiling water / freezing water.
(c) Quicklime / limewater.
(d) Magnesium citrate / quicklime.
5. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) David Hume.
(c) Kant.
(d) Boyle.
Short Answer Questions
1. Lavoisier, along with the chemists Macquer, Cadet, and Brisson, performed experiments on ________ at the highest temperature available.
2. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
3. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
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?
5. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?
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