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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
(d) Cartesians.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Musschenbroek.
(c) Newton.
(d) Mariotte.

3. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of science.
(b) Century of light.
(c) Century of reason.
(d) Century of life.

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

5. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Black.
(c) Macquer.
(d) Bayen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?

3. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

4. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

5. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

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