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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Calculus.

2. 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.
(a) Juncker.
(b) D'Holbach.
(c) Lemery.
(d) Rouelle.

3. 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) Christians.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Buddist.

4. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
(a) Stephen Gray.
(b) Francis Hauksbee.
(c) 'sGravesande.
(d) Newton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?

3. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.

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

5. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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