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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 the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.
(a) French electrician.
(b) American plumber.
(c) Polish priest.
(d) German psychologist.

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

3. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Quicklime / limewater.
(b) Lemonlime / electrical heat.
(c) Boiling water / freezing water.
(d) Magnesium citrate / quicklime.

4. Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Hales.
(d) Lavoisier.

5. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?
(a) William Gilbert.
(b) John Cuthbertson.
(c) Robert Symmer.
(d) Martinus van Marum.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

2. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?

3. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?

4. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

5. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

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