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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Robert Boyle.
(c) Swift.
(d) Galileo.
2. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) French Revolution.
(b) Scientific Revolution.
(c) Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) American Revolution.
3. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Newton.
(b) Black.
(c) Fordyce.
(d) Roebuck.
4. The narrator explains in Chapter 4 that the most popular textbooks in France during the first half of the eighteenth century were those of ________ and ________.
(a) Cullen / Black.
(b) Stahl / Marggraf / Rouelle.
(c) Boerhaave / Lemery.
(d) Roi / Lavoisier.
5. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.
(a) Sign language.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Algebra.
Short Answer Questions
1. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
2. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
3. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
4. According to Chapter 4, what is another name for nitrous oxide?
5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
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